The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 118
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
Jeff Daniels
I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Ken Livingstone
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A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.
Douglas Rushkoff
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.
Craig MacDonald
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis Jr.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
George Sand
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
Beth Ditto
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.
Naomi Wolf
Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
Katherine Mansfield
When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
Henry Cloud
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
Stendhal
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Malcolm Cowley