Imperatrice Sissi Quotes & Sayings

Songs of worship arise from a life of worship. — Tim Hughes

All that exists is the present moment — Alaric Hutchinson

The United States is primarily a guilt-based culture. The dominant method of social control in this country involves teaching people to feel guilt about not living up to personal expectations. Contrast this with shame-based cultures like Japan. As researchers Ying Wong and Jeanne Tsai explain in their paper, Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt, shame is "associated with the fear of exposing one's defective self to others. Guilt, on the other hand, is associated with the fear of not living up to one's own standards." In this formulation, guilt is based on failing to achieve personal ideals; shame is based on social exposure ["The Anti-Vaccine Movement Should Be Ridiculed, Because Shame Works," Gizmodo, February 6, 2015]. — Matt Novak

You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing. — Zach Parise

She said the word often enough, and there could be no doubt that she meant to say it; but if the often repeated word had been hate instead of love - despair - revenge - dire death - it could not have sounded from her lips more like a curse. (29.88) — Charles Dickens

But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one's arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content. — Dexter Palmer

Somehow, she and the physicians rolled the stone back from the cave and eventually he was released to the high-dependency unit. — Terry Hayes

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. — Ron Kind

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them. — Rivers Cuomo

Reading is the unhindered flow of ideas between minds. — A. Umaz