"Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations."

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Source : "What Life Should Mean to You". Book by Alfred Adler (p. 14), 1937.

Alfred Adler

#Determination Quotes #Giving Quotes #Determined Quotes

“I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing
“In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.”

Source : "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.
“Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231”
“It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
“The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.”
“I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, `SCARFACE is in town.' `What's it about?' `Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals.' `Sounds great! Let's take the kids!'”

Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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