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1 " Mindfulness is an invitation to change that pattern and to become aware of where we are and how we got here. Mindfulness gives us a chance to listen to the wisdom of our hearts, to notice with more clarity where we get in our own way, and to shift from reacting out of habit to responding from our intentions. "
― Maia Duerr , Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention
2 " We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. If the mother is at fault, why isn't it time to break the pattern by urging all these Sleeping Beauties to grow up and live their own lives? There never will be enough Prince Charmings or enough therapists to break that pattern now. It is society's job, and finally that of each woman alone. For it is not the strength of the mothers that is at fault but their weakness, their passive childlike dependency and immaturity that is mistaken for " femininity." Our society forces boys, insofar as it can, to grow up, to endure the pains of growth, to educate themselves to work, to move on. Why aren't girls forced to grow up - to achieve somehow the core of self that will end the unnecessary dilemma, the mistaken choice between femaleness and humanness that is implied in the feminine mystique? "
3 " I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very ' bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - it strangles so:... "
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman , The Yellow Wall-Paper
4 " I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy. "
― , Simply Love (Simply Quartet #2)
5 " The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. " Quite the contrary, in fact." " What did you say?" said Sniff.Moomintroll went a bit red. " I mean -- stars in general," he said, " big and small, friendly and unfriendly, and so on." " Can they be unfriendly?" asked Snufkin." Yes -- ones with tails," answered Moomintroll. " Comets." At last it dawned on Sniff. " You're hiding something from me!" he said accusingly. " That pattern we saw everywhere, and you said it didn't mean anything!" " You're too small to be told everything," answered Moomintroll." Too small!" screamed Sniff. " I must say it's a fine thing to take me on an expedition of discovery and not tell me what I'm supposed to be discovering! "
6 " Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him. "
― , Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
7 " What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature. "
