All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Marcus Aurelius

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Leon Trotsky

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Henrietta Szold

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

John Major

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

Voltaire

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Blaise Pascal

She walks in beauty. (118)

Ron Rash

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

Friedrich Nietzsche

I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Miranda Lambert

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

Walt Disney