“Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 48 of 313
“Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.”
“Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?' And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.”
“And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.”
“Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.”
“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”
“People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.”
“I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal”
“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.”
“Lack of understanding is always painful.”
“In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.”
“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
“It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious”
“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.”
“It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.”
“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .”
“O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?”
“The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.”
“He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.”