Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

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You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Johnny Depp

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Stephen Richards

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

Source Unknown

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

John Green

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Stephen King

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased

ArLeaBelle

Too many locks, not enough keys.

Sarah Dessen

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

Rachel Bilson

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

Graham Greene

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte