Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Jason Ritter

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

Paul Farmer

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

George Saunders

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Jane Austen

I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Julie de Lespinasse, Letter to t

The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Matthew Arnold

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

William Shakespeare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

John Morley, Life of Gladstone,

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Henry Petroski