-¦mischief, -¦arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.
– Karen Swallow Prior
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- From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother’s words–perceptive and many others–have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me. – Karen Swallow Prior
- What good literature can do and does do-”far greater than any importation of morality-”is touch the human soul. – Karen Swallow Prior
- I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.- – Hannah More – Karen Swallow Prior
- Eternal joy arises by living in the ‘permanent room’. Living in the ‘temporary room’ gives temporary joy. – Dada Bhagwan
- I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You’re forgiven! – Assegid Habtewold
- Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. – Michael Ondaatje
- Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen. – Dawn French
- Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing. – Heather Marsh
- It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling… – VS Naipaul
- Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world. – HG Wells
- For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world. – Billy Graham
- The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion. – Sarah Noffke
- Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of -˜our’ own accord. – Dada Bhagwan
- Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief. – Nalini Singh
- A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. – Esme from Sister Mischief – Laura Goode
- This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.- – Esme from Sister Mischief – Laura Goode
- I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. – Esme from Sister Mischief – Laura Goode
- In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. – Thomas Jefferson
- Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him. – Patrick Yee
- There is nothing more terrifying than a devious person who takes delight in their own mischief – Taja Zenna
- Don’t you worry, darlin’,- he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. -œI like surprises – Lisa Daily
- Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door – Benny Bellamacina
- Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. – Fernando Pessoa
- Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all. – Primadonna Angela
- You can’t conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections. – May Sinclair
- All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don’t last! – DeBorrah K Ogans
- That our affections kill us not, nor dye. – John Donne
- Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? – William Shakespeare
- The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep. – JC Ryle
- Such is my curse, Branwyn O’Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me. – Jo Grafford
- Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections. – Mary Baker Eddy
- Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections. – Mary Baker Eddy
- Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity. – Joanne Madeline Moore
- All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. – Rebecca Solnit