Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Ricky Williams

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

John Berger

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it's the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Lorii Myers

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H. L. Mencken

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

A.A. Milne

The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.

C. J. Weber

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot