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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“Would you like to know your future?
If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.
So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.
So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”
― Wishful Drinking
― Wishful Drinking
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
― Runemarks
― Runemarks
“We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.”
― The Murder Room
― The Murder Room
“We rarely do anything with on single motive.”
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?'
Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.”
― Desperation
Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.”
― Desperation
“I can hear you preach about freedom,
yet your motive that makes me listened.”
― Master of Stupidity
yet your motive that makes me listened.”
― Master of Stupidity
“Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?”
― Master of Stupidity
― Master of Stupidity
“There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?”
― The Instructions
― The Instructions
“Bethink thee then how love must be the seed
In you, not only of each virtuous action,
But also of each punishable deed.”
― The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary
In you, not only of each virtuous action,
But also of each punishable deed.”
― The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary
“Her flippant remark about seeing other people had been so far off base he considered the comment completely AWOL.” ”
― Catch .22
― Catch .22
“The novelist’s perception of motive and character is equally suited to the penetration of human deceit. I am determined never to apologise for my talents in either.”
― Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
― Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
“Become a 'game rearranger.' Cut the BS and WALK sharply in the TRUTH you can see...especially in calculated conversations which could be dangerous in their motive-operandi. Look and listen deeper into the spirit of your dialogues.”
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“The motive is usually revealed when challenges arise along the way, bad motives rarely have roots to withstand the storms and torrents.”
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“There are correct answers for the human soul to every question that's asked with a deep and meaningful motive by the inquisitor; first identify and center the motive, so that clarity can have its conscious...soul say.”
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“Sometimes we do not need motivation to get started but the realization of a great motive behind what we are set to do”
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“Following Christ is not enough; we must follow Him for the right reason.” (To follow Christ for our purpose and not for pure relationship is asking Christ to follow us.)”
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“Andrew sighed at Styrka’s unforgiving attitude; it was the fashion among Calvinists at Reykjavik to deny any weight to human motive in judging the good or evil of an act. Acts are good and evil in themselves, they said; and because Speakers for the Dead held as their only doctrine that good or evil exist entirely in human motive, and not at all in the act, it made students like Styrka quite hostile to Andrew.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“He was actually glad to be alone with his silence and the remains of those who had died. These men hadn’t cared about the squabbles of those born with lighter eyes than they. These men had cared about their families or—at the very least—their sphere pouches. How many of them were trapped in this foreign land, these endless plateaus, too poor to escape back to Alethkar? Hundreds died each week, winning gems for men who were already rich, winning vengeance for a king long dead.”
― The Way of Kings (1 of 5)
― The Way of Kings (1 of 5)
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