"The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy."

-- Peter McWilliams

#Inspirational Quotes #Energy Quotes #Be Prepared Quotes

“At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 45, 1930.
“Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.”
“I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.83, Macmillan
“Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”
“Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.”
“Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.”
“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.”

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