Melatih Mental Quotes & Sayings

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness. — Kahlil Gibran

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. — Gabriel Byrne

It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself. — Dolly Parton

In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. — Madame De Stael

Because insulin's job is to transport nutrients out of the bloodstream and into the muscle, liver, and fat cell storage depots, its excessive presence in the bloodstream inhibits the release of stored body fat for use as energy. — Mark Sisson

Then someone within closed the door, shutting Norah out into the howling dust of the night. The clouds parted briefly to reveal the full moon's cold eye, then closed again. Wind seared over the pavilion's double roof, its voice rising to a shriek. Distantly, among the maze of walls, came the frenzied barking of hundreds of tiny dogs. As she drifted towards wakefulness, Norah could not tell whether it was the wind that she heard just at the end, or whether, within the dark hall, the girl had begun to scream. — Barbara Hambly

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

And he looked at her with open eyes, the bone of his heavy brow a bastion above, the flesh of his face wealthy below, and in those eyes she glimpsed an imperium, a mechanism of rule building itself from the work of so many million hands. Remorseless not out of cruelty or hate but because it was too vast and too set on its destiny to care for the small tragedies of its growth. — Seth Dickinson

To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery — Henry David Thoreau

Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else. — Henry David Thoreau

The key to happiness? Find someone who would rather you be happy than themselves and then you treat them the same way. That way, no matter what, you are both trying to insure the OTHER person's happiness and in turn, yours is undeniable. — Sharon Swan

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. — Iimani David