#over

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#comes #despair #first #great #healed

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ↗

— George Eliot

#govern #half #her #man #must

Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation—it is self-evident. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#attitude

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#breath #inadequate #like #lover #must

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attributes #combine #efforts #encouraging #enthusiasm

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#degrees #discovered #i #old #play

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. ↗

— Black Elk

#after #dance #did #ground #horse

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around. ↗

— Black Elk

#around #back #badly #face #father

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#disturb #disturbance #every #future #herself

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #crust #from time to time #over #revolution