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“Thinking of yourself as or calling yourself a "Buddhist" can be a disadvantage because if you wear the title "Buddhist" that may be an obstacle which prevents others from discovering the human being in you.”

Book:Answers from the Heart Publisher: Parallax Press

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“Vern stowed away the titles of books like morsels she might snack on later. She liked being reminded of the incomprehensibleness of the world. There was more to life than Cainland, more to earth than its collected sorrows. There was wonder and awe and the allure of nothingness. No one had figured everything out, but there were people who'd made their home in the searching. If they could dwell there, so could Vern.”

Knowledge Information Books Seeking Titles Incomprehensibility

Book:Sorrowland

Source: Sorrowland

“A title doesn’t make a leader—impact does.”

Leadership Impact Titles Leadership Quotes Leadership Styles

Author:Erden Tuzunkan

“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.”

Titles Writer Writing Life Write Verb

Book:Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

Source: Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113”

Genius Titles Librarian Ancient Cultures

Book:The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

Source: The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

“I thought about TimeBlaze. We should...shorten the titles. The titles are getting long. More colons than a proctologist.”

Humor Titles Colon

Book:The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To

Source: The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To

“When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.”

Purpose Justice Subjects Kings Good Titles Emptiness Nothing Monarchs Crown

Book:The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr

Source: The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr

“Do not get tired of searching. If there’s anything to get tired of, it should be the act of counting the number of times you have searched without finding.”

Motivational Motivation

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Maia screamed and woke. 'Serenity?' Cala's voice, Cala's angular shape outlined against the window. ' 'Tis an ironic title, in sooth,' Maia said feebly, realizing that the entangling garments of the nightmare were merely his bedsheets. His heart was hammering, and he was clammy with sweat.”

Titles Irony Nightmares The Goblin Emperor

Book:The Goblin Emperor

Source: The Goblin Emperor

“The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.”

Reading Titles

Book:If on a winter's night a traveler

Source: If on a winter's night a traveler

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