"In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me."

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Robert Herrick

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“All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.”
“When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.”

Source : Liberace (1973). “Liberace: an autobiography”, Longman Canada
“I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.”
“Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.”
“She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”
“I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.”
“People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.”

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