The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.
Steve MaraboliTag: inspirational happiness choice freedom rules fearless refinement
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo TolstoyTag: wisdom knowledge ignorance analogy refinement
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan PamukTag: equality rich civilization guilt culture wealthy refinement
Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
George MacDonaldTag: love god refinement chistianity
Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.
Tag: acceptance indifference elegance inaction japan passivity refinement
...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...
Paul HoffmanTag: fear pain love evil god soul heart beat secret good bad path save fire part tomas lover paul bitter delicacy adore chosen hand shape unaware reasonable refinement swan cale hoffman arbell dreadful hammered laft neck
I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.
Steve MaraboliTag: success greatness purpose change living potential creating amazing process improvement refinement aligned enhancement
Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.
Jan MoranTag: woman grace refinement elegant-woman
It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.
Ian FlemingTag: james-bond death assassination refinement horseplay
God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
Anthony LiccioneTag: money contentment god security novelty changes shift advance conversion adjustment correct build transform bring refinement provide dollar develope instant-riches
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