#ric

È allora che l'arte è perfetta, quando sembra esser natura; mentre la natura raggiunge il suo scopo quando presuppone l'arte senza che ce ne accorgiamo. ↗

— Pseudo Longino

#letteratura #retorica #art

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings... ↗

— Lauren Kate

#lucinda-price #attitude

The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#beginning #choices #end #outlook #richelle

View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive... ↗

— Malcolm X

#afrika #identity #malcolm #attitude

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good-natured #helpful #life #plenitude #richness

Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#challenges #hardships #life #perspective #richelle

McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else - an attitude which reached its apogee in the "Harvard manner" of about 1900. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#attitude

Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.) —Pray; discuss your troubles with God. —List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.) —Call your mom. —Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat. —Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hardships #perspective #positive-attitude #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#inspirational-attitude #political #art