#er

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#perceptions #change

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing #change

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#immigration #equality

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#happiness #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #literature #literature-quotes #poems #poetry

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— George Rivorie

#destiny #earth #equality #equality-of-cultures #foundation

Why didn't God apportion fine looks in equal accordance with deserving personalities? A horrid man ought to be horrid looking. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#looks #personalities #equality

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#experience #lose #optimism #win #experience

In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls. ↗

— Peter Prange

#possession #power #equality

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine. ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#equality