Energising Development Quotes & Sayings

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself. — Victor Hugo

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli

Love is difficult, isn't it?'
'But that's the way love is. — Arina Tanemura

the wise may be instructed by a fool — Francois Rabelais

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for — Chantal Kreviazuk

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do. — Jane Pauley

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it. — Peter Mullan

If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation. — Scott Kelly

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them. — Chanakya

Just waiting, hoping that you'd miss me enough to tell them all to go to hell. — Leigh Bardugo

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view. — Marilynne Robinson

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life. — Stella Adler

If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher Ego, or Self, or Spirit). The more the Ego shines like a sun at the center of gravity of the astral body, the more the different characters start orbiting around it. Instead of working only to satisfy their own selfish desires, the characters start manifesting the purposes of the light and of the Spirit. Instead of plotting for the success of their own ambitions, they start accomplishing the works of the Higher Self ... The unveiling of the Self begins a process of unification
a new astral body slowly develops. In this new, or transformed, astral body, the different parts are penetrated by the light of the Self. Therefore they are not only united around the Self, but are also cemented to it ... [Before this process], one is nothing more than an appearance: it is the illusion of being one person ... — Samuel Sagan