Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Hans Christian Andersen

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Joey Adams

Who is unhappy at having only one mouth? And who is not unhappy at having only one eye? Probably no man ever ventured to mourn at not having three eyes. But any one is inconsolable at having none.

Blaise Pascal

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Barbara Tuchman

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Samuel Johnson

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

Thylias Moss

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

Candace Bushnell

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon