"Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other."

-- Joseph Addison

#Attitude Quotes #Fire Quotes #Frost Quotes

“I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.”
“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.”
“There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?”
“The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's MÃ©chanique CÃ©leste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.”
“I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.”
“Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)”
“O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust; But he whose name is graved in the white stone Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.”
“I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.”

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