It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

Andy Grammer

Will and intellect are one and the same.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Act, don't react!

Source Unknown

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

Nicky Hilton

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Leo Tolstoy

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Mary Astell

The smile upon my lips, ?It will surely never die ?As I'm waiting here for you ?until you're by my side.

Freida Martinez

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Albert Camus