“Everybody, even those that don’t like Chinese food, knew that you had to eat the cookie for the fortune to come true. And so he did.”
Source: The Magic Shop
“Hoping your problems will go away doesn’t actually make them go away.” “You sound like a cheesy fortune cookie.” Emma continued laughing. “Well, handle your shit doesn’t have as cute of a ring to it, does it?”
Source: Fake It Till You Make It
“Mind you, the whole world is our family, and our family is our responsibility – not of a bunch of so-called specialists. And this is not a glorified hypothetical ideal, rather it is an actuality.
To refer to this kind of actual and not hypothetical statements with potential for inspiring others, I hereby propose the term “neuro-cookie”. A neuro-cookie is not simply an inspiring quotation, rather for a quotation to be a true neuro-cookie, it must be based on actuality. The world has already plenty of inspiring statements, but when you go deeper into those statements, you find out that most of them have no basis in reality whatsoever. Most of these statements are products of mere romanticism and imagination. And since we are talking about reality, we must also keep in mind that, it is not necessary for a neuro-cookie to be fully empirical, but it must have some empirical basis. The contention of a neuro-cookie is to not simply inspire the human, but to do so with the most effective fusion of rational and compassionate elements. You probably have seen some of those neuro-cookies in my recent talks.”
“Had Chinese Food & my fortune cookie read, "Be not afraid to walk through the door of opportunity". So I left the restaurant without paying...”
“There is a price for forgetting and remembering. Forgetting as a form of escape deprives us of what the Five Gifts can offer––humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, and growth.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“When someone we know is hurting, it’s our instinct to want them to get better––first, for themselves, and also because our inability to assist leaves us feeling helpless.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“God never closes a door without opening a window. But we have to look for it.” – Sarah Mahoney”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“There is no such thing as “it can’t happen here.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Practice in the art of swiping away whatever we don’t want to face leaves us ill prepared to face tragic events in our own lives.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“The attempts to found a morality apart from religion, are like the attempts of children who, wishing to transplant a flower that pleases them, pluck it from the roots that seem to them unpleasant and superfluous, and stick it rootless into the ground. Without religion there can be no real, sincere morality, just as without roots there can be no real flower.”
Source: On Life and Essays on Religion