Dijk Quotes & Sayings

In fact, the very thing that many high-reactives hate most about blushing - its uncontrollability - is what makes it so socially useful. "Because it is impossible to control the blush intentionally," Dijk speculates, blushing is an authentic sign of embarrassment. And embarrassment, according to Keltner, is a moral emotion. It shows humility, modesty, and a desire to avoid aggression and make peace. — Susan Cain

We have been created as recipients. I look at the stars, at the grass, at my fat-faced children, at my fingernails, and I am oppressed by gratitude
I have been given a belly so that I might hunger. I have been given hunger so that I might be fed.
I look in the atheist's mirror. I look at his faith in the nonexistence of meaning. I look at his preaching and painting. I see nothing but a shit-storm.
Why would I walk through that door? Why would I live in your novel? — N.D. Wilson

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H Gass

Even if trafficked sex workers initially chose to go abroad to do sex work,
they had been led to believe they would do so under different conditions than the
slavery-like forced prostitution they were eventually subjected to. Following the
definition of the Palermo Protocol, their knowingly entering prostitution does not
make women less of a victim if they are eventually deceived and forced to do
the sex work. — Jan Van Dijk

There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly. — Pawan Mishra

Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we have lost contact with essential aspects of our own emotional and spiritual lives. — Gregory Orr

Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him. — Martin Luther

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish. — Pope Francis

How can we meet them face to face, till we have faces? — C.S. Lewis

Brutality." Augustus lets the word hang in the air. "It is neither evil nor good. It is simply an adjective of a thing, an action in this case. What you must parse is the nature of the action. — Pierce Brown

How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we've said all along, is just to coach 'em up. — Randy Carlyle

If you're living in the present...you only have to deal with what's actually going on in that moment. — Sheri Van Dijk

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them. — Andrew Solomon