The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

George Eliot

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Henry Miller

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

Bette Davis

Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is not merely being alive, but being well

Marcus Aurelius

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland

Their lives had another forty seconds to run.

Stephen King

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose

Harry Browne

Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

Christy Turlington

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Helen Hayes