WildAngel

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”

It’s hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness - Chuck Palahniuk

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you’re misinformed.” —Mark Twain

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” ― Plato

“Watch your thoughts for they become your words; watch your words for they become your actions; watch your actions for they become your habits; watch your habits for they become your character; watch your character for it becomes your destiny.” — Lao Tzu

“If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.” - Jack Kornfield

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.” - Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son

Modernity has terribly failed us.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill