The way that other people judge me is none of my business.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy. . . is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness.
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated.
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.