"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality".
-- Bertrand Russell

"Emotional pain is not a character defect. It is a part of life and must be attended to like all our feelings. Feelings are not facts. They are bio-feedback on how we are doing today and what needs attention inside. Feelings won't kill me, but killing my feelings will.
-- Pocket Sponsor, as per Scott

"Most people have a hard time delegating, or even wanting to delegate, because you have been justifying your existence through your hard work, and you equate success with struggle; you equate results with struggle. And so, you sort of wear your struggle like a badge of honor. And all of that is opposite of allowing the Well-being.

"The only thing that ever matters in success or achievement is your achieving the things that you want to achieve. So if you are setting standards and you're feeling uncomfortable about the standards that you've set, tweak the standards back a little bit. Ratchet it back a notch. Give yourself a break. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Lighten up. Be easier. Go slower. Take it easy. Have more fun. Love yourself more. Laugh more. Appreciate more".

-- Abraham, Abraham-Hicks

"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people."
-- James Russell Lowell

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind".
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
-- Unknown

"Follow an old path and you find the expected. Blaze a new trail and you have an adventure."
--Steve Haskamp

"There's a lot to be said for living alone. You get to be a real individual."
-- Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens. Book by Doug Wright.

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me".
-- Noel Coward

"Today we have made history... Now let us make progress."
-- Nancy Pelosi

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"... Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charles M. Schulz

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation".
-- Robert Kennedy

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde

"To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error."
-- Janet Coleman

"The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."
-- Fortune Cookie

"When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event."
-- Robert M. Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"Doh!"
-- Homer Simpson

"In the same way, we become masters of jealousy, masters of sadness, masters of self-rejection. All of our drama and suffering is by practice. We make an agreement with ourselves and we practice that agreement until it becomes a whole mastery. The way we think, the way we feel and the way we act become so routine that we no longer need to put our attention on what we are doing. It is just by action-reaction that we become a certain way."
-- Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us".
-- Quentin Crisp