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ook share to pinterest labels non fiction quotes no cure for being human quotes quotes from no cure for being human by kate bowler i am a professor of history so i know this in my bones nothing is inevitable history is made by people who stared blinking into the uncertain future their paths were not lit before them by sacred meteors for most of us this sounds like good news we choose and choose and choose again before when i was earnest and clever and ignorant i thought life is a series of choices i curated my own life until one day i couldn t i had accepted the burden of limitless choices only to find that i had few to make i was stuck in this body this house this life i feel a spark of horror each time i remember it we come undone this is what happens to all of us we fall ill we get old we can t have that baby or keep that relationship we missed our chance to go to this school or take that job our parents die before we know them and our kids forget our love we lose people before we can learn to live without them this will be a hard journey he says is there anything you can set down everybody pretends that you only die once but that s not true you can die to a thousand possible futures in the course of a single stupid life the terrible gift of a terrible illness is that it has in fact taught me to live in the moment nothing but this day matters the warmth of this crib the sound of his hysterical giggling and when i look closely at my life i realize that i m not just learning to seize the day in my finite life the mundane has begun to sparkle the things i love the things i should love become clearer brighter the truth of the pandemic is the truth of all suffering that it is unjustly distributed we try to outsmart our limitations and our bad bad luck but here we are shouting the truth into the abyss there is no cure for being human these are such small decisions really but aren t they all trying again getting back up trusting someone new loving extravagantly inside these numbered days time really is a circle i can see that now we are trapped between a past we can t return to and a future that is uncertain and it takes guts to live here in the hard space between anticipation and realization posted by jon at 2 43 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels non fiction quotes 09 february 2022 the obstacle is the way quotes the impediment to action advances action what stands in the way becomes the way posted by jon at 3 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels non fiction quotes 02 february 2022 what made maddy run quotes by kate fagan boyd delivered this sermon the fine art of being imperfect in 1996 apparently the irish pastor never wrote out his sermons but rather scribbled down a few notes and extrapolated on the ideas as he stood before his flock to make his point about the varying human responses to imperfection boyd uses three examples waterford crystal pottery and oriental rugs at waterford boyd explains each piece of crystal is meticulously inspected held up to the light each surface appraised for the slightest crack or deformity if any is spotted the piece is immediately shattered boyd allows this imagery to sink in allows the listener to picture the beautiful crystal being smashed against a hard object the pieces swept away punishment for a defect nearly invisible to the human eye then boyd urges us to consider the slight space between these two wildly different outcomes he says notice how close perfection is to despair then he moves on to pottery as a potter s hands move over clay shaping the malleable form occasionally a mistake is made an unwanted alteration to the vision but usually the potter will not throw away the clay she will attempt to reshape the piece around the mistake as if it had never happened then boyd turns to the weavers who create the world s most beautiful rugs they spend hours creating designs by hand and during this painstaking process the shapes and angles often become lopsided asymmetrical however this is its uniqueness this rug is unlike any other and that is what makes it a coveted work boyd s message asks a single question of his listeners in which way do we view imperfection posted by jon at 4 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels non fiction quotes 24 january 2022 boomtown quotes selected quotes from boomtown by sam anderson because the land run was even by the standards of america absurd it was a very bad idea executed very badly something like one hundred thousand settlers showed up to wait for the starting gun roughly the entire population at the time of indianapolis it was far too many people for the amount of good land available but from the very start oklahoma was an idea that far exceeded its reality the process is for people who trust time boom is for people who don t posted by jon at 3 58 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels non fiction quotes sports 19 january 2022 lands of lost borders by kate harris quotes the point of life by our mutual measure was to give it all we had the only way we knew how to go was too far wasn t that the most meaningful outcome of any kind of exploration to reveal the old world and ourselves anew most aspects of oxford from the twisting cobbled streets to corsi s lectures encouraged digression which is after all just a sideways method for stumbling on connection after being on an achievement bender most of my life the prospect of withdrawal of doing anything without external approval or better yet acclamation kept me obediently between lines i couldn t even recognize as lines isn t that the final most forceful triumph of borders the way they make us accept as real and substantial what we can t actually see suggesting that borders are little more than collective myths fictions that a certain number of people for a certain period of time believe are fact we long our whole lives for things we ve never known places we ve never been abstractions that come alive to us in unexpected ways the wildness of a place or experience isn t in the place or experience necessarily but in you your capacity to see it feel it in that sense biking the silk road is an exercise in calibration anyone can recognize wildness on the tibetan plateau the challenge is perceiving it in a roadside picnic area in azerbaijan i wondered whether we re most alive in our moments of longing the act of launching for a place we re not certain to land the way neil armstrong said he could blot out the earth from the moon with his thumb did that make you feel really big someone asked him upon his return no the first moonwalker confessed in a rare candid moment it made me feel really really small he also included a photograph of someone climbing a jagged spire in the alps if the recipients recognize the silhouetted human figure they may guess that it was both difficult and seemingly pointless to scale this rock needle the only point would be the accomplishment of doing it if this message is communicated it will tell extraterrestrials something very important about us and why not err on the side of audacity when it comes to this one and only life but exploration more than anything is like falling in love the experience feels singular unprecedented and revolutionary despite the fact that others have been there before more cold gusts stripped the poplars of the few leaves they had left the wind more alive than the branches it moved and so big it could only be the mountains breathing posted by jon at 3 26 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lands of lost borders non fiction quotes 13 december 2018 start with why by simon sinek notes define values as verbs rather than action not integrity but always do the right thing not innovation but look for new ways to do things have a clear sense of purpose and amazing discipline apple if you are competing against everyone nobody will help you if you are competing against yourself everyone will help you posted by jon at 4 25 pm 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book notes simon sinek start with why 17 july 2015 the brothers karamazov quotes the following are selected quotes from the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoyevsky fyodor pavolovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife s death and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy raising his hands to heaven lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace but others say he wept without restraint like a little child so much so that people were sorry for him in spite of the revulsion he inspired it is quite possible that both versions were true that he rejoiced at his release and at the same time wept for her who released him as a general rule people even the wicked are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose and we ourselves are too 5 in his childhood and youth he was by no means expansive and talked little indeed but not from shyness or a sullen insociability quite the contrary from something different from a sort of inner preoccupation entirely personal and unconcerned with other people but so important to him that he seemed as it were to forget others on account of it 14 it is not miracles that dispose realists to belief the genuine realist if he is an unbeliever will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact even if he admits it he admits it as a fact of nature till then unrecognized by him faith does not in the realist spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith 20 it s just the same story as a doctor once told me observed the elder he was a young man getting on in years and undoubtedly clever he spoke as frankly as you though in jest in bitter jest i love humanity he said but i wonder at myself the more i love humanity in general the less i love man in particular 49 i am sorry i can say nothing more consoling to you for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams love in dreams is greedy for immediate action rapidly performed and in the sight of all men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over with all looking on and applauding as though on stage but active love is labor and fortitude and for some people too perhaps a complete science but i predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting further from your goal instead of nearer to it at that very moment i predict you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you 50 i understand too well ivan one long to love with one s inside with one s stomach you said that so well and i am awfully glad that you have such a longing for life cried alyosha i think everyone should love life above everything in the world love life more than the meaning of it certainly love it regardless of logic as you say it must be regardless of logic and it s only then one will understand the meaning of it i have thought so a long time half your work is done ivan you love life now you ve only to try to do the second half and you are saved 213 posted by jon at 6 19 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels quotes the brothers karamazov 03 november 2014 the places in between quotes the following are selected quotes from the places in between by rory stewart i offered asad money but he was horrified it seemed a six hour round trip through a freezing storm and chest deep snow was the least he could do for a guest i did not want to insult him but i was keen to repay him in some way i insisted feeling foolish he refused five times but finally accepted out of politeness and gave the money to his companion then he wished me luck and turned up the hill into the face of the snowstorm 221 babur writes upon his arrival the people of yakawlang who had heard of us as we descended carried us to their warm houses brought out fat sheep for us a superfluity of grain and hay for our horse with abundance of wood and dried dung to kindle our fires to pass from cold and snow into such a village and its warm houses on escaping from want and suffering to find such plenty of good bread and fat sheep as we did is an enjoyment that can be conceived only by such as have suffered similar hardships or endured such heavy distress 223 blair s handling and discussion of the koran would have struck ali as highly eccentric in ali s view blair could not have red the koran because blair could not read arabic since the koran unlike the bible is the verbatim word of god spoken through muhammad in arabic a translation is not considered to be the koran at times it has been considered blasphemous to translate it at all 236 blair s confidently casual handling of the text was not supposed to be patronizing or presumptuous but to display his sensitivity to islamic culture he seemed to assume the koran resembled the protestant bible which can be translated without problem easily understood freed of apocrypha opened to interpretation by laypeople and physically handled much like any other book this assumption may be shared by other christian commentators such as bush in november 2001 a photograph showed bush casually dragging a koran across the table with his unclean left hand while the mullah who presented the book struggled to smile 237 posted by jon at 12 56 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels quotes rory stewart the places in between winterdance quotes the following are selected quotes from winterdance the fine madness of running the iditarod by gary paulsen there came a time of almost unbroken back breaking effort god it was staggering all that had to be done with the realization that i knew nothing came the need to learn and the best way to learn about running dogs other than begging information was to run dogs 114 she was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful posted by jon at 12 46 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction gary paulsen quotes winterdance 28 may 2014 the hobbit quotes here are selected quotes from the book the hobbit by j r r tolkien the hobby was a very well to do hobbit and his name was baggins the bagginses had lived in the neighborhood of the hill for time out of mind and people considered them very respectable not only because most of them were rich but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected you could tell what a baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him now it is 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