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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
For that can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to read more
For that can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Power is neither male nor female.
Power is neither male nor female.
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes read more
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Calmness is the cradle of power.