Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Sir Richard Steele

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapour as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs colour like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet.

Virginia Woolf

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

Sally Schneider

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

G. W. F. Hegel

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Ali Smith

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.

Arthur D. Little

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

Madame Guizot

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Travis Barker