"In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor."

-- George Lakoff

#Mean Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Reality Quotes

“The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.”
“If you see the Holy Spirit as a power, you will say 'I want more of the Holy Spirit' (especially in time of need). But if you see Him more as a Person, you will say 'I want the Holy Spirit to have more of me.'”
“Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.”
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.”
“There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.”

Source : John Michael Greer (2008). “The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age”, p.192, New Society Publishers
“Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.”

Source : "Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom".

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