Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 80

We avoid the things that we\'re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
 Shakti Gawain
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
 Mary Schmich
Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.
 Brendan Kennelly
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
 George S. Patton
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.
 Beverly Daniel Tatum
Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
 Leonard Mlodinow
It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.
 Iris Smyles
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
 Rick Larsen
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
 Archilochus
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
 Wes Nisker
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
 Calvin Seerveld
The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.
 Jay Asher
He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
 P. C. Cast
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
 Benjamin Whichcote