Elsie Lincoln Benedict famous quotes

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.
-- Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.
-- Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.
-- Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

Think it over, think it under.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

I find that deep breathing and meditation help me handle practically any situation.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.