The spirit of gratitude is definitely one of the main keys to happiness and constant growth. Every blessing needs to be celebrated and transformed into a motivation for more blessings.
You can never control the main outcomes of your life without controlling your mental attitude.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
Valence passa une main sur ses yeux et quitta la fenêtre. -L'alcool est là, lui dit Néron en tendant les bras.
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
Body is morning dew that shines to the rise of the hands. (Corps est rosée du matin - Qui brille au lever des mains.)
To better to hold hands, lovers stand eyes. (Pour mieux se tenir la main, - Amoureux se tiennent les yeux.)
My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.
I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.
All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.
One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.
For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
