St. Theodore Guerin Quotes & Sayings

What behaviors are rewarded? Punished? Where and how are people actually spending their resources (time, money, attention)? What rules and expectations are followed, enforced, and ignored? Do people feel safe and supported talking about how they feel and asking for what they need? What are the sacred cows? Who is most likely to tip them? Who stands the cows back up? What stories are legend and what values do they convey? What happens when someone fails, disappoints, or makes a mistake? How is vulnerability (uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure) perceived? How prevalent are shame and blame and how are they showing up? What's the collective tolerance for discomfort? Is the discomfort of learning, trying new things, and giving and receiving feedback normalized, or is there a high premium put on comfort (and how does that look)? — Brene Brown

Before one travels abroad, it is best to have a simple, heartwarming soup from home, so that one can recall it fondly should one ever happen to feel a little — Amor Towles

170. When it is said to them: "Follow what Allaah has sent down." They say: "Nay! We shall follow what we found our fathers following." (Would they do that!) Even though their fathers did not understand anything nor were they guided? — Anonymous

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. — Vladimir Nabokov

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. — Saadi

All things are possible. — Libba Bray

Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, "Say hello to my l'il frien'" in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston.
Bat emerged from behind the thing. "Don't judge me," he said. "I got bored. — Warren Ellis

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections. — Chris Diamantopoulos

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

They say that a person should visit Paris three times in their life - once when they are young, once when they have the money to truly enjoy it, and once when they are in love. — Brenna Aubrey

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

and love was lightning and remembrance — Charles Bukowski