Ben Says: When we learn to control our minds on how we think...we will begin to control the direction of our lives. So begin to think great and live the same.Timothy PinaBullying Ben

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Jean Paul Richter

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Marge Piercy

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

Basil King

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Thomas Jefferson

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Maya Lin

Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.

Victor Hugo

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

David Sedaris

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Annette Funicello

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Judge Learned Hand

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld