the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.
adults forget how difficult that task was.
One of our group said that a lot of people in church spend a lot of time correcting each other these days, but in order to correct another person in love, you really have to know that person. Only the...
Today, I look forward and I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.
its key components are action and practice, which in turn prompt success, which refuels motivation. Figure
I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.
Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radiance of creation. I had heard the most beautiful thing that ears can hear: frien...
It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.
an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles.
Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we oft...
Many programmers would prefer to mock in their client library specs, but doing so could result in the service and client passing all specs with hidden failures.
I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.
The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.
In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.
I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.
Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone.
I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing u...