Felli Loss Quotes & Sayings

Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way. — Matthieu Ricard

I think, honestly, that ego makes you most vulnerable. When you are in humility you are much more comfortable, open and okay with BEING vulnerable, whereas the ego is the protecter, and even though you think you're protecting, I think you are more vulnerable if you're in ego. — Mike Ness

The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors. — Thomas Hughes

There are five forms of wealth: economic wealth, relationship wealth, physical wealth, adventure wealth and what I call psychic wealth (which is all about filling your life with meaning). — Robin S. Sharma

Living beings have this in common; the breath of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority. — Millicent Fenwick

What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could manipulate in order to manipulate others. He himself remained invisible, a puppeteer working the strings of his alter-ego from a dark, solitary place behind the curtain — Paul Auster

Although neuroplasticity provides an escape from genetic determinism, a loophole for free thought and free will, it also imposes its own form of determinism on our behavior. As particular circuits in our brain strengthen through the repetition of a physical or mental activity, they begin to transform that activity into a habit. The paradox of neuroplasticity, observes Doidge, is that, for all the mental flexibility it grants us, it can end up locking us into "rigid behaviors."33 The chemically triggered synapses that link our neurons program us, in effect, to want to keep exercising the circuits they've formed. Once we've wired new circuitry in our brain, Doidge writes, "we long to keep it activated. — Nicholas Carr

These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little. — Neal Stephenson