"We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Anxiety Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects.”
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.”
“It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential.”
“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”

Source : Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows”, p.178, Zondervan
“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
“Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.”
“May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.”

Source : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.132, A&C Black
“The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.”

Source : Amy Clampitt (1991). “Predecessors, et cetera: essays”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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