#ang

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#accept #cannot #change #changed #distinguish

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#courage #danger #else #more #more than anything

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#agents #already #also #angeles #basic

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#audience #been #blockbusters #brought #down

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dangerous #man #most #play #plaything

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger. ↗

— Diana Ross

#anger #because #carry #emotions #good

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. ↗

— Gary Numan

#bit #childhood #could #different #had

I love change, I need it. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#i #i love #love #need