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inspiring fun offering
Alanis Morissette But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
inspiring lying eye
Alan Watts There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
inspiring space patterns
Alan Watts Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
inspiring confused levels
Alan Watts The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.
inspiring conventions deceived
Alan Watts To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
inspiring struggle killing
Alan Watts The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
inspiring frustration trying
Alan Watts Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
inspiring mistake cat
Alan Watts The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.
successful mislead-us watches
Charles Caleb Colton Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
Charles Caleb Colton To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Charles Caleb Colton Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
Charles Caleb Colton For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
Charles Caleb Colton To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Charles Caleb Colton Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Charles Caleb Colton Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
Charles Sturt The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
success eggs laziness
Charles Spurgeon The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
mistake power order
Charles Caleb Colton It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
Charles Caleb Colton True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Charles Caleb Colton Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Charles Caleb Colton Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
Charles Caleb Colton A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Charles Stross Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.
mistake ends chains
Charles Stross Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Charles Spurgeon Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
Charles Spurgeon A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.