"You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power"

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Source : "The Science of Wallace D. Wattles".

Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Connected Quotes

“Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.”
“It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.”

Source : Ralph Fletcher (2010). “How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
“Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.”
“It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.”
“I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.”
“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
“I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.”

Source : Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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