#tho

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. ↗

— Akhenaton

#armed #art #body #employ #furnished

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ↗

— Akhenaton

#act #action #change #establish #ever

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ↗

— James Allen

#courage #greatest #honor #man #mind

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#first kiss #give #i #job #kiss

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#catholic #i #myself #thought

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not. ↗

— Eddie Albert

#am #i #i always #really #singer

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#experience

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. ↗

— James Allen

#bear #fruit #good #good thoughts #thoughts

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. ↗

— Emily Watson

#entertained #grew #i #lots #meant