Francoise Mallet-Joris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

  • What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  • Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

  • When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

  • There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  • History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

  • Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  • Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

  • Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

  • Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.