"We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?"

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Source : 1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

George Etherege

#Helping Quotes #Affection Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.”

Source : Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company
“The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny”
“Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. That sexy stuff just happened to be part of our wardrobe, and its fun. Not all of our wardrobe is like that, but it is part of the performance and the show. It takes a woman who knows herself to be able to work an outfit like that.”

Source : Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. June 12, 2009.
“I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.”
“My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.”

Source : Bernard Stiegler, David Barison (2009). “Acting out”, Stanford Univ Pr
“Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.”
“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4”, p.393, Random House
“Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”

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