Receives Positive Heat

Famous quotes containing the words receives, positive and/or heat:

    One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom—such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it—those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Whoever influences the child’s life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child’s future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.
    Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

    The LORD will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew...
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 28:22.