The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
We create a lot of unnecessary problems in our lives by acting emotionally...without contemplating the ripple effects of our actions.
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.
♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death.
Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion. Every act of perception is art. So everything that perceives is an artist.
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ~Dorothea Brande
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