Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot (E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly)
Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all (“Steps Going Up” aka “Guillotine” aka “Men Must Die”) – Cornell Woolrich, The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: An Inner Sanctum Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn’t accept it (Fay Weldon)
When everything is a law, nothing is a law (Eric Robert Morse)
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories (W. Somerset Maugham)
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming (Robert Tew)
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart (An Wang)
He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children (Bessie A. Stanley)
Social media is your platform to build a unique fan base while you express yourself exactly how you see yourself. Build wisely (Germany Kent)
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. (William Godwin)