We are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.
Andy Andrews
I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
A.S. King
Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.
Dr. Seuss
Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.
Azar Nafisi
. . we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
Peter McWilliams
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
Nostradamus
Change is the very fabric of our time.
David Brin