"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Character Quotes #Perception Quotes #Thrive Quotes

“AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.140, David C Cook
“Good education has got to be good entertainment.”
“All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.”
“Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.”
“Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.”
“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
“Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
“I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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