Mente Quotes & Sayings

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. — Alvin Ailey

To keep your writing motoring along nicely, enthusiasm is the petrol. — David John Griffin

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present. — Dennis Lehane

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.
[Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.] — Marcus Terentius Varro

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God. — Timothy Keller

I threw away everything that might make me happy. It's what I did. It's what I was good at. Not being happy. I was fucking awesome at being miserable. — Mercy Celeste

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. — Norman Lear

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal. — Winston Churchill

The Chinese are not programmed to make decisions quickly, and attempts to force them to do so, wittingly or unwittingly, invariably backfire. Instead, they view things from all angles, over and over again, and while doing so make judgments about the sincerity and trustworthiness of the people they are dealing with. The more impatience Westerners demonstrate, the less trustworthy they are judged to be. — Mente, Boye Lafayette De

Yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible. — Angie Sage

Instructions for freedom:
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.
3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.
4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.
5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go.
6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go.
7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go.
8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go.
9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go.
10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

subsidy is hidden from view — Edward D. Kleinbard

I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that. — M.J. Rose

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you. — Nirmala Srivastava

Confucius himself taught that the more laws a society has, the less people will obey them and that societies that depend on laws to control the behavior of their citizens will eventually self-destruct. — Boye Lafayette De Mente

We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. — Emil Cioran

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same- — Brian Andreas

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person. — Josh Hutcherson