Affectively Based Quotes & Sayings

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. — Roger L'Estrange

Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time. — Ken Kesey

I try to conjure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are. I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. Back to wherever they are. — Margaret Atwood

Be perceptive.
Be progressive.
Be proactive.
Be productive. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In matters of healing, the body initiates and the mind follows. — Jonathan Kellerman

Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices. — Thomas Narofsky

Reason, by a weariness that made everything around — Elena Ferrante

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human. — Elif Shafak

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others. — Donna Karan

His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions. — Vincent De Paul

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not. — Kip Tindell

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits) — August Strindberg

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections. — David Bezmozgis

They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets - and it's the secrets that attract attention. — R. Zamora Linmark