Gaining Emotional Strength Quotes & Sayings

There is no greater misfortune than not knowing what is enough. There is no greater fault than the desire to possess. — Lao-Tzu

I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are. — Steven Spielberg

Proving the obvious has never been easy. — Marty Rubin

I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to Gd as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. — Immanuel Kant

Really, when you think about it, how can God speak through everybody? Hmmmmmm. — Art Hochberg

I have discovered from personal experience that one can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them. — Dale Carnegie

And all of a sudden, she knew. He was going to kiss her. And she wanted him to. More than she could have imagined. Her breath caught as his gaze moved from her eyes to her lips and her whole body tensed as she watched him move closer. His lips were so close to her own that she could feel the light touch of his breath on her skin. Her eyes fluttered closed and she waited on tenterhooks ... all her senses screaming. He's going to kiss you! Only, he didn't. — Sarah MacLean

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game. — Travis Thrasher

I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That's the way I look at it. It's wrong. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing. — Art Alexakis

...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs. — Alexandra Zapruder

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits ... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them ... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still. — David Cobley

What narcissists and sociopaths will do is construct a false apology, in order to pacify dissent and further evade detection. This is usually delivered snidely, with a subtext of blaming the victim for their own actions, whatever they are. — William Lockhart