It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

Harlan Coben

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Werner Heisenberg

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

Nate Silver

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Oscar Wilde

The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Queen Elizabeth II

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Steve Maraboli

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

Albert Camus

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Rumi

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nevell Bovee