The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
#quotes #james-robertson #world #struggle

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#quotes #samuel-taylor-coleridge #mind

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
#quotes #francis-bacon #mind

Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
#quotes #nizar-qabbani

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
#quotes #peter-thiel #education #thinking

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
#quotes #jeffrey-kluger #language

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
#quotes #zeno-of-citium #feelings #mind #reason #nature

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
#quotes #norbert-of-xanten

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
#quotes #max-eastman #mind #emotions

Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #carpe-diem

Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #mistakes

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
#quotes #george-muller #nature #god

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
#proverbs #scottish-proverbs #idleness #procrastination

Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #generations

Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
#quotes #john-henry-patterson #men #mind

Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #kindness

Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
#proverbs #nigerian-proverbs #friendship

Lovely message for a lovely person, from lovely friend, for a lovely reason, at a lovely time, from a lovely mind, in a lovely mood, in a lovely style, to wish you; have a lovely birthday...
#birthday #cute

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
#quotes #emile-durkheim #society #mind

Rose is famous for grace, advocate is famous for case, horse is famous for race. But you are famous for sweetness on your face.
#message #cute

If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind. ~Neale Donald Walsch
#quotes #neale-donald-walsch #mind

Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
#quotes #haruki-murakami #emptiness