#mist

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#allow #any #constructive #dwell #kind

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#aging #allows #being #case #children

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#answers #before #being #make #man

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#audience #find #mistakes #out #pays

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#i #made #mistakes #my own #own

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#anyone #away #conquest #hard #her

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#made #mistake #only #real #right

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#alchemy #stars #age

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free