When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

Cassandra Clare

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fo

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Anne Sullivan Macy

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

David Wilkerson

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia Woolf

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Jet Li

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

John Marmysz

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ambrose Bierce

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Nick Price

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell