Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Cory Lidle

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Silence is an ornament for women.

Sophocles

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Samuel Alexander

What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein

Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were a present far too small:Love so amazing, so divineDemands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts

Charm is more than beauty.

Yiddish Proverb

Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism.

David Edwards, Burning all Illus

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Leo Tolstoy

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Lisa Alther

The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.

Charles Dickens