The water is spangles off soft blue, five-o'clock warm, and the pool's smell, like the other smell, connects with a chemical haze inside you, an interior dimness that bends light to its own ends, softens the difference between what leaves off and what begins.
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Hepimizinki günübirlik hayatlar; hatırlayanın, hatırlanandan farkı yok.
Each of us has a day-to-day life; there's no difference between the one who remembers and the one being remembered.
Amara, 18 years
Keeping her face to the ground, Amara walked away from the clearing without a word, wondering if there would ever be an end to the pain, realizing that there wasn't much difference between true evil and true love. They snuck up on the vulnerable, gripped them by the throat, and left a realm of ruin behind.
In that split second, Morana knew the stark difference between her father and Tristan Caine.
His grip loosened.
Deliberately.
"There was a great difference which was very striking to con- temporaries between the moral standards of the courts of Reformed and of Lutheran princes, the latter often being degraded by drunkenness and vulgarity"
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"Why do you attack the present social system?
Because I see the evils that capitalism has engendered.
Evils? I thought you recognized no difference between good and evil. How do you make a living, then?"
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Difference between Lutheranism and Calvinism
"Luther stood close to the former type, Calvinism belonged defi- nitely to the latter. The Calvinist also wanted to be saved sola fide But since Calvin viewed all pure feelings and emotions, no mat- ter how exalted they might seem to be, with suspicion," faith had to be proved by its objective results in order to provide a firm foundation for the certitudo salutis"
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When a person’s been burned to ashes and become about the same as a piece of apatite, there’s nothing there worth revering. So why do we treat it like a big deal? Why are there holidays to mark the beginning and end of each year? Why do you have to make a public confession and stroll around in the streets together before getting in bed with someone? Why, to live together legally, in addition to needing a certificate, do you need to invite your friends and family to a useless ceremony?
Because life and death, dark and light, partings and meetings, all have the meanings people have endowed them with. You can’t see them or touch them, you don’t know what use they have, but the difference between you and me and a lump of chemicals lies in those bits of meaning.
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path... -Matrix
"The more someone loved me, the more I got bored of them. Perhaps not bored - they ceased to sparkle in my eyes. I look down on myself so much that I try to gain self-validation through the eyes of others. But because that's not a validation that I am able to accept, there's limit to how satisfying it can be, and I become bored of it. Which is why I go looking for someone else, and ultimately why I think someone liking me cannot in itself satisfy me, I'm devastated if someone I like doesn't like me and devastated when someone does end up loving me; either way, I am looking at myself through the eyes of another. In the end, I'm torturing myself. Because I don't love myself, I am unable to understand those who do love me in spite of it all, and so I test them. Even when the other person forgives me, I am unable to understand their forgiveness, and then when they give up on me, I torture and console myself with the 'fact' that no one could ever love. I don't want any more twisted relationships, and I'm tired of not being able to find satisfaction in the present and being obsessed with the past or having high expectations of new relationships. I have come to a point where I am no longer able to tell the difference between my loving someone and not loving someone I am so tired of myself being lost in the woods all the time with no plan of action, for having so little willpower and being so wishy-washy. What do I wish for? I want to love and be loved. Without suspicion, and with ease, That's it. I don't know how to love or be loved properly, and that's what pains me."
It is frightfully easy for us to lose our sense of the difference between what brings money and what causes happiness.
Sayfa 40
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life.
Rahat seçim için ödüllendirilmezsiniz. 
Own The Day, Own Your Life
Tek bir gün hayatınız gibidir. Her parça birbiriyle bağlantılıdır, yaptığınız her seçim gelecekte yapacağınız seçimleri etkiler. Gerçek dönüşümü gerçekleştirmek için tek bir şeyi değiştirmeye değil, bir gün değişmeye odaklanmalısınız.
Şimdi sizden bir yıl sonraki kendinizi hayal etmenizi istiyorum.
‘The difference between gods and daemons
largely depends upon where one is standing
at the time.’
Dependencies
The only true freedom for a person is solitude. And what belittles solitude are dependencies. Loves, alcohol, nicotine, moral values, drugs... They can all be shackles at any moment, binding a person's feet. Pleasurable shackles. Their common characteristic is that the pleasure they provide is not felt after a long time, while their absence immediately creates a pain in the heart. A dependent person is like someone riding a merry-go-round. There is neither a destination nor progress in their life. Everyone ends up where they started, spinning until they can't stomach it anymore... A person's struggle with themselves begins with eliminating their dependencies. I struggled for years to let go of them all. For years, I peeled off the shells that covered my body and mind one by one. But like scars left by prematurely torn-off shells, traces remained in my mind. I realized, albeit late, that the only way to completely rid oneself of the dependencies that make a human an animal is to die. That was the difference between Kayra and me. He persisted in believing he could vaporize them all.
Anyway! Let's return to the ways dependencies are eradicated while still alive... They never end. They just change shape. If one that wants to be abandoned is removed, a new one is placed in its stead, that's all. That's the only way to rid oneself of a dependency. There is no independent person. Therefore, we choose what suits us best. We say, "I'll smoke, it makes me look taller." Or, "I love people, I want to always be with them, walk among crowded groups of friends," because admitting we're addicted to human flesh is a more polite way of putting it.