Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
Interpretation
Feed your intellect with positive and inspiring ideas.
This quote emphasizes the importance of cultivating a mindset that is rich in great thoughts and ideas. By nurturing our minds with positivity and wisdom, we can foster growth, creativity, and a fulfilling life.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue their dreams.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
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