Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.

C. Neil Strait

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

Theresa May

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

Charlie Sheen

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese Proverb

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

Steve Maraboli

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Nicholas Stern

When we parcel heaven and fence eternity, when the wildness is all tamed and torn, don't let me live to see.

Connie Dover

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Terence