Quotes & Sayings About Fate In The Iliad

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times - although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we
make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last blockon a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. — Rick Riordan

One of the many things I love about Daenerys from Game of Thrones is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend. — Emilia Clarke

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard — Les Brown

Thankful that I can share the disturbing stories in my brain with people."

"I have so many stories to tell you...of course that is if you plan on listening to them... — Kelly Fisher

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard. — Robert Ballard

We're all monsters," he says. "Everyone of us. No matter what you want to believe, believe this. We will all fight. We will all kill. Every person you've ever met, the monster lives inside them all. — M. Arthur

We become what we pay attention to — Sue Monk Kidd

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor