81q9000gus Quotes & Sayings

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. — Charles Dickens

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. — Natalie Clifford Barney

To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security. — Harry Markowitz

For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon ... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here! — Jacques Parizeau

Do you wish to be accepted for who you are? Do you wish to be loved without condition? Do you wish for people to welcome you, in spite of your flaws, in spite of your shortcomings, in spite of your mistakes? Then why do you insist on changing others? -Evening Prayer from the Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Eleventh Binding Third Stanza — Aaron Lee Yeager

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. — Jack Kornfield

We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward. — Frazey Ford

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance ... We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts ... — Napoleon Hill

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self — Suzanne Segal

If one doesn't do something well, it shouldn't be done."
"I don't agree," she protested. "Sometimes the effort should be made even if the results aren't perfect. — Lisa Kleypas

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. — Eckhart Tolle

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain. — George Mikes