Ismenia Poletti Quotes & Sayings

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation. — Elizabeth Berg

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. — James Cagney

we have a plastic brain that changes in response to our experience. It bears repeating: The brain doesn't tell us what to do; it is part of a system in which our life experience teaches our brain what to do. So you can practice mindfulness, will power, overcoming procrastination, and other healthy new skills with the confidence that you are changing your brain. Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle. — Richard O'Connor

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. — Patricia Heaton

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them. — Azar Nafisi

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right. — Plato

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it. — Robert Goddard

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure. — George S. Patton

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible. — Jane Yolen

Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. — David Allen

People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard. — David Brooks

Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars: — Friedrich Nietzsche

If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment. — Eric Maskin