#motives

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Motivo Eu canto porque o instante existe e a minha vida está completa. Não sou alegre nem sou triste: sou poeta. Irmão das coisas fugidias, não sinto gozo nem tormento. Atravesso noites e dias no vento. Se desmorono ou se edifico, se permaneço ou me desfaço, — não sei, não sei. Não sei se fico ou passo. Sei que canto. E a canção é tudo. Tem sangue eterno a asa ritmada. E um dia sei que estarei mudo: — mais nada.” — Cecília Meireles


Cecília Meireles


#poems #songs-cecilia-meireles #motivational

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.


Robert A. Heinlein


#church #end #end result #forbidden #government

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.


Joseph Lancaster


#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.


Saint Teresa


#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.


Ella Maillart


#each #exclusively #his #humanity #individuals

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.


Abraham Maslow


#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.


Dee Dee Myers


#administration #causes #cynicism #everything #his

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.


Quentin Crisp


#displaying #famille #living #maximum #motives

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.


P. D. James


#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.


Samuel Johnson


#motives #secret #though #visible