Hikayeler 18 Quotes & Sayings

Our truth-allergic, experience-addicted populace wants transformation but doesn't want the loss of freedom and control associated with submitting to authority within a committed community. Many "converts" seem to make decisions for Christ but soon lose their enthusiasm because they are offered quick programs for follow-up and small group fellowship rather than a lifelong, embodied experience of community. Many churches do not even have a process for becoming a member. As a result, converts' lives are often not visibly different from those in the culture around them. The older, more communal processes of traditional churches are better at bringing about a more thorough transformation of life. — Timothy Keller

our professions, as presently organized, often discourage self-help, self-discovery, and self-reliance; — Richard Susskind

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. — Derek Bailey

Even though she let these thoughts run as fast as they would, she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar. — Colm Toibin

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way. — Seth

There is a sacred lesson in any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man's memory. That is our duty. If we don't fulfill it, we feel unhappy. — Jorge Luis Borges

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold. — Jim Holden

I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy. — Paul Buchheit

She smoked so much she smelled like tobacco even after a shower, like if she slit her skin, menthol vapor would ooze out. He'd come to like it, it smelled like comfort and home to him, the way warm bread might to someone else. — Gillian Flynn

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty