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  • In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011
  • If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

    Fun   Men   Knowing  
    "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.
  • If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

  • To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

    William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”
  • All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

  • I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.

    Girl   Thinking   Littles  
  • I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

    "Sweet Home Alabama". Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. December 18, 2002.
  • All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

  • Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.

    Crazy   Trying   Helping  
  • Giving in to a shrill instinct, she ran around the side of the building. Butch was marching toward his car as if he were carrying an unstable load, and she rushed to catch up with them. “Wait. I need to ask him a question.” “You want to know his shoe size or something?” Butch snapped. “Fourteen,” Wrath drawled. “I’ll remember that at Christmas, asshole.

    Wrath   Shoes   Giving  
    J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.135, Penguin
  • Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.

    Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan
  • We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

    Honor   Fickle   Opinion  
  • During these unstable times, let go of any fear or insecurity in your emotions. Look for new ways that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Believe in yourself and your ability to create new streams of income. Rather than continuing in a season of fear, let this be a time to transition into a season of creative success!

  • The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

    George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition
  • Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.

    Long   East   Needs  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

    Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.140, Oxford University Press
  • In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

    People   Drug   Majority  
  • People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

  • My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin
  • Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

    Men   Delay   World  
  • Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly

    Eoin Colfer (2007). “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception”, Miramax
  • In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

    Aunt   Oil   Middle East  
  • Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

    Country   Gun   People  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

    Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster
  • Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

    Real   Character   Eye  
  • Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

    Going Away   Energy   Doe  
    Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.79, Pan Macmillan
  • Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

    Way   Action   Indecisive  
    Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group
  • If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
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