By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Thomas Otway

I missed you, she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.

Thomm Quackenbush

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Stephen King

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Otto von Bismarck

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

Don't learn safety rules simply by accident

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Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

David Crane

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson