If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.
William James
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
J.K. Rowling
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.
Steve Maraboli
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
The commandments of God should be followed because of love of God, not because of fear of God.
Leo Tolstoy
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
Helena Christensen
We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
Tori Amos
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
Edwin Louis Cole
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
Stephen King
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Chris Patten
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.
George Eliot
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed hasbeen, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seedthere, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
Jeff Bridges
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
Beth Ditto
Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.
William Shakespeare
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci
Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.
Stephen Richards
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
Tom Allen
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
Octavia Butler
Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic?
Steven Wright
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Jerry Saltz
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