Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.
Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
Mickey Spillane
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
Freeman Dyson
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essa
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Aristotle
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Smiles are the language of love.
David Hare
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
Agnes Repplier
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Source Unknown
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Hate pollutes the mind.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
To feel fit as a fiddle you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
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