"None is so rich as to throw away a friend." --Turkish proverb
"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change." --Schiller
"Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them." --Anon.
Moderation is fine when it comes to food, but don't let it get out of hand:
"Put a pot of chili on the stove to simmer. Let it simmer. Meanwhile, broil a good steak. Eat the steak. Let the chili simmer. Ignore it." --Allan Shivers
"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." --James Beard
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." --Redd Foxx
I've realized a lot of things lately about life... on love, friendship, family, self-preservation...
self-improvement...
And it all fuckin' hurts.
VIRTUAL INSANITY PART 3 - HOOK, LINE, & SINKER part 2
"Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries." --Voltaire
"Its OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break." --Billy Joel
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." --George Washington
"Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it's hopeless." --Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." --Joan Didion
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep." --Leonardo da Vinci
"To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him... two." --Norman Douglas
"I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do." --Agatha Christie
"If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
--Katherine B. Hathaway
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live."
--Mortimer Adler
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work." --John Lubbock
"The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly." --Oscar Wilde
"People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them."
--Brian Koslow
"Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." --Sydney Smith
"Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization." --George H. Bender
"What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be." --Ellen Burstyn
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn."
--Agatha Christie
"Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy." --J. Krishnamurti
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble." --Moliere
"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." --Frederic Chopin
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." --James A. Garfield
"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery