A man always has two reasons for doing anything --
a good reason and the real reason.
J.P. Morgan
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
Ernest Hemingway
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e.e.cummings
"Suicide, like murder -- uncreative! Anyone desperate enough for suicide, I thought, should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try."
Richard Bach
From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, "I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible." Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there is our world, just the way we've built it.
Richard Bach, "Bridge Across Forever"
"the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid, and a lizzard child shall lead them"
i don't know where this is from, it was written on a plaque in my gran's hallway
"Presume not that I am the thing I was"
Henry IV, part 2
"a way of handling the shame of failure is to withdraw from people into aloneness. its always sad when you meet someone who tends to reject love when its offered for fear of being rejected once more. people who do this idealize strength. their philosophy is "i dont need anybody else; i dont want any relationships. im strong enough to do without them.' but underneath that facade they are merely avoiding those people with whom they would risk further shame and rejection."
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