Inspirational Quotations

A mind conscious of integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
—Robert Burns (Scottish Poet, Songwriter)

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
—Ihab Hassan (American Literary Theorist)

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
—Gerald Jampolsky (American Psychiatrist)

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
—George Gissing (English Novelist)

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
—Robert Bresson (French Film Director)

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
—Dale Carnegie (American Self-Help Author)

Philosophy has been called the knowledge of our knowledge; it might more truly be called the knowledge of our ignorance, or in the language of Kant, the knowledge of the limits of our knowledge.
—Max Muller (German-British Orientalist)

If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy.
—Grandpa Jones (American Musician)

You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and then forgetting Him the rest of the week.
—Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
—Bernard of Clairvaux (French Catholic Religious Leader)

Truth is inner harmony.
—Walther Rathenau (German Statesman)

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going day in and out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
—Arnold Bennett (British Novelist)

Laughter is wine for the soul—laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm… Once we can laugh, we can live.
—Sean O’Casey (Irish Dramatist)

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.
—John Bunyan (English Writer, Preacher)

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
—Don DeLillo (American Author)

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
—Emily Kimbrough (American Author, Journalist)

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
—Philippine Proverb

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
—Georges Gurdjieff (Armenian Spiritual Leader)

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving—instead of actually getting up and leaving.
—Erica Jong (American Novelist, Poet)

To play it safe is not to play.
—Robert Altman (American Film Director)

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there’s a criticism to be made today, it’s that the press isn’t doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.
—Walter Cronkite (American Television Journalist)

The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
—John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (British Statesman)

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
—Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish Philosopher, Writer)

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
—Muriel Spark (Scottish Novelist, Poet)

We know only four boring people. The rest of our friends we find very interesting. However, most of the friends we find interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the most boring. The few who are somewhere in the middle, with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or we too interesting for them.
—Lydia Davis (American Author)

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
—Lyman Beecher (American Presbyterian Clergyman)

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
—Gerard de Nerval (French Poet, Writer)

When wars do come, they fall upon the many, the producing class, who are the sufferers.
—Ulysses S. Grant (American Head of State)

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
—Erik Erikson (German-born American Psychoanalyst)

Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.
—Henry Clay Trumbull (American Clergyman)

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
—Norman Podhoretz (American Political Activist)

Holding on to conditional beliefs about how people should behave toward you because of all you do for them will only set you up to feel disappointment, anger, and resentment to people in particular as well as disillusionment about others in general.
—Harriet B. Braiker (American Psychologist)

Listening to someone talk isn’t at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
—Oriana Fallaci (Italian Journalist)

Even the worst artist that ever was, even a one-eyed mental deficient with the shakes in both hands who sets out to paint the chicken-house, can enjoy the first stroke. Can think, By God, look what I’ve done. A miracle. … Must be one of the keenest pleasures open to mankind. It’s certainly the greatest an artist can have. It’s also the only one. And it doesn’t last long, usually about five minutes.
—Joyce Cary (English Novelist)

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
—Angela Davis (American Political Activist)

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
—Joseph Heller (American Novelist)

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
—Wilkie Collins (English Novelist, Playwright)

Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
—R. D. Laing (British Psychiatrist)

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Jean Rhys (British Novelist)

When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
—Nora Ephron (American Filmmaker)

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
—Minna Antrim (American Writer, Epigrammist)

By doing good deeds all the time, the mind gets purified. Such a pure mind devoid of any bad thoughts is like a temple in itself.
—Subhashita Manjari (Sanskrit Anthology of Proverbs)

The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras (French Novelist, Playwright)

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
—Dale Turner (American Congregational Priest)

Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
—Victor Borge (Danish-American Comedian, Musician)

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.
—Charles Cooley (American Sociologist)

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
—Sivananda Saraswati (Hindu Spiritual Teacher)

If you’ve truly committed yourself to something, given it all you’ve got, and then concluded that it is not for you—move on to something else.
—Susan Jeffers (American Self-Help Author)

Love lives on. Those we love are never really lost to us. We feel them in so many special ways—through friends they always cared about and dreams they left behind, in beauty that they added to our days, in words of wisdom we still carry with us, and memories that never will be gone. Those we love are never really lost to us—for everywhere their special love lives on.
—Amanda Bradley (American Poet)

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
—Hesiod (Greek Poet)

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
—Brother Lawrence (French Carmelite Monk)

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second, and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting. Finally you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of success, for only practice will make you perfect.
—Annie Oakley (American Markswoman)

From religion comes a man’s purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.
—William Lawrence Bragg (British Physicist)

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
—Upton Sinclair (American Novelist, Social Reformer)

People often think when you get divorced, it’s as simple as filling out a bit of paper and moving on with your life. Often, that can be true for an uncontested divorce, but a contested one makes matters more complicated.

This usually refers to when the spouses involved cannot agree on some aspects of their divorce case.

The Difference Between Uncontested And Contested

There are two main types of divorce to know about. The first, and most common, is the uncontested divorce.

The uncontested divorce refers to when both parties involved agree on all issues of the divorce. Such matters include property division, debt management, child custody and support and alimony. These details can be hashed out beforehand together or with your attorneys, but agreement is usually common on some grounds.

You can probably see where this is going, but the other type of divorce refers to contested divorces, which are slightly more complicated.

Contested divorces are for when the spouses involved cannot agree on all issues, leading to court dealings where a judge will make the decisions for them. Clearly this is a last step, as not only does it take much more time, it also costs more money. Mainly for the court fees.

Steps Involved

When it comes to actually going through with a contested divorce there are, understandably a few more complicated steps for finalizing divorces.

You’ll have to prepare a lot more paperwork, such as the divorce petition, which is essentially about legally asking for the divorce and explaining the breakdown of the marriage.

You will of course need an attorney to represent you legally, so getting the best representation is important. When it comes to divorces, you should get a lawyer from a family law firm. Fullenweider Wilhite have family lawyers in Houston, TX, and are considered one of the best when it comes to family law.

Getting a reputation for being one of America’s most experienced family law firms isn’t easy, but they’ve managed to get it. When you have substantial assets at risk via a divorce, you need someone on your side with the experience to protect you.

Once you have your attorney, which is key, the steps become slightly easier, but you’ve still got work to do. You’ll most likely be asked by your lawyer to gather information regarding your divorce. This could include getting depositions, subpoenas or preparing questions.

This information is served to give you the edge when it comes to court matters. You’ll have pre-trial hearings that will also be important. If both you and your spouse fail to come to a settlement via attorneys, then be prepared for a trial.

Impact

The impact of going through a contested divorce cannot be understated. It will be very hard for the whole family to go through and you probably won’t be friends afterwards.

When it comes to the trial, both spouses will present witnesses, leading to lawyers cross examining and arguing. It won’t be a pretty process. Once the proceedings are over, you’ll receive the decision and final orders, leading to finalizing the divorce.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.
—Dawn French (Welsh Comedienne, Actress)

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted—a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
—Harold Kushner (American Jewish Religious Leader)

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
—Mistinguett (French Dancer, Actress)

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.
—Julius Nyerere (Tanzanian Statesman)

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.
—Jesse Owens (American Athlete)

Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
—Betty Friedan (American Feminist, Author)

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.
—Raisa Gorbacheva (Russian Activist)

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
—Peter Ustinov (British Actor, Playwright)

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Essayist)

If you promise the moon, be able to deliver it.
—Byrd Baggett (American Self-Help Author)

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
—Martin Amis (British Novelist)

Success is achievable without public recognition, and the world has many unsung heroes. The teacher who inspires you to pursue your education to your ultimate ability is a success. The parents who taught you the noblest human principles are a success. The coach who shows you the importance of teamwork is a success. The spiritual leader who instills in you spiritual values and faith is a success. The relatives, friends, and neighbors with whom you develop a reciprocal relationship of respect and support—they, too, are successes. The most menial workers can properly consider themselves successful if they perform their best and if the product of their work is of service to humanity.
—Michael DeBakey (American Surgeon)

Building a travel blog is fun and as easy as it may sounds, blogging is an art and requires skills. In order to gain visibility and drive traffic to your site, you must understand the different strategies and techniques available that you can use in your travel blogs. The travel industry is huge and there are millions of travel blogs available on the internet. Now for you to stand out in this competitive industry, you must produce fresh, unique, and engaging content for your online visitors. It is important to note that over 59% of travel bloggers run more than one travel blog and given the growth in recent years, there’s no sight of slowing down.

Launching your blogs blindly on the internet can do you more harm than any good. So make sure that you do your research before stepping into this vast industry. Blogging is a great way to build brand awareness and flock people to your travel website. Use these 8 strategic tops to drive more traffic for your travel blog

Strategic Content Marketing

Just like every other business, your blogs have the highest capacity to draw people to your site. Creating content that is appealing and of high-quality is a great way to make your travel blogs more attractive. There are several ways you can use your blogs to drive traffic such as creating irresistible headlines, evergreen travel content, fresh and updated content. Being a successful travel blogger is utilizing various techniques to produce the best content for your online visitors. Strategically place your high-quality images in your posts to make your travel blog visually attractive.

Enhance User Experience

When building a travel blog, it is important to create a good user experience for those who visit your site. User experience has become one of the most important ranking factors for search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Make sure that your website is equipped with good speed, multiple landing pages, easy navigation, great website design, and so much more. If your blog is unreadable, difficult to navigate, or slow, the chances of them bouncing off your blog to another site is very high. No matter how good your content is, a bad user experience can have a direct on your website ranking and visibility on search engines.

Work with Influencers

Having a personal travel blog means you need to do everything by yourself to receive the benefits of blogging. A great way to promote your travel blog is by teaming up with other bloggers who are within your niche. Partnering with established influencers will increase the visibility of your travel blog to a wider audience. Similarly, you can connect with small businesses in your area that can help build credibility and also attract traffic to your site. You can even join communities on social media and connect with different travel bloggers to share your expertise in your niche. This will help build brand awareness and establish you as an authoritative travel blogger.

Optimize for SEO

In order to gain visibility and drive traffic to your travel blog, you must learn how to optimize SEO for your website. SEO is one of the crucial components that is required to host a successful travel blog. Using different techniques and tactics with the help of SEO, you will be able to reach your targeted audience efficiently and make the most of the traffic that you receive. Here are a few ways you can use to optimize your travel blog:

• Use relevant keywords to target the right audience. Long-tail keywords can be very useful for travel blog as they are very specific and less competitive
• Optimize your high-quality images alt text and description. You can use keywords to enhance the visibility of your images.
• Adding videos is a great way to grab the attention of online visitors
• Earn backlinks to boost visibility and drive more traffic to your blog. Links from other relevant authoritative blogs will increase the chances of being seen by a wider audience.

Guest Posts

Promoting your travel blogs is essential for you to have a strong online presence. Writing guests post is one way to link your blog to other travel blogs. It is basically writing articles for other websites that are more authoritative so that when you are linked back through the guest post. You will have an opportunity to interact with a new audience that brings more readers your way. This establishes that your blog has value and sends positive to search engines which in turn boosts your traffic and increases your web ranking. When choosing websites to write guest posts, consider those that are relevant to your niche so that you will draw similar targeted audiences to your travel blog.

Increase website speed

Your website speed can have a major impact on your ranking, visibility, engagement, sales and even bringing revenue. While focusing on content, SEO, networking is all-important for your blog, neglecting your website speed will increase the bounce rate of your blog. If a user clicks on your blog link and it takes time to load, the chances of that user coming back to your blog will decrease drastically. As much as bringing traffic to your travel is important, keeping them to stay longer is crucial. If your site is slow, you can increase the speed of your blog by decreasing the size of your images, enable browser caching, compress files, decrease code size, a great web hosting provider, etc. Speaking of web hosting providers, hostingfoundry.com has compared and reviewed some of the best hosting services out there that can help you drive more traffic to your blog.

Be active on Social media

We all know the importance of having a strong presence on social media. It is important to use different techniques on each platform to build followers and establish your travel profile. While some bloggers tend to focus on only one or two social platforms, you can choose what works best for your travel blog goals. The first thing you should do is update your social profiles with all the necessary information that your follower might need such as travel blog name, contact information and you can even link your blog to your travel website. Every time you post a blog on your site, you can share it on your social platform with attractive and appealing images. You can also enable sharing buttons so that your followers can share and comment on your posts. Remember to interact and engage with your audience so that you can build a relationship with them on a personal level.

Mobile-friendly

With over 3.5 billion smartphone users in the world, optimizing your travel blogs to be mobile-friendly can be very beneficial to you. By making your blog compatible with different screen sizes, you will be able to reach a wider audience. Your mobile-friendly blog should be easy to navigate, fast, readable, etc which will help garner more visitors to your blog. User experience is essential and search engines have made mobile-friendly websites a ranking factor. So if you want to drive more traffic to your travel blog, a mobile-friendly will help you do just that.

Conclusion: Drive More Traffic to Your Travel Blog

The travel industry is huge and there are millions of travel blogs available on the internet. Now for you to stand out in this competitive industry, you must produce fresh, unique, and engaging content

Using these strategies can help you gain visibility on search engines and drive more traffic to your travel blog. However, it is important that you pay attention to your travel followers so that you can provide the relevant blogs to meet their needs.

The Results chapter is the core of any dissertation showing what a student has achieved. Discussion is, in turn, evidence that the author is able to be objective and analytical. Both chapters are often given little attention because of a lack of knowledge. This post will explain the main points to know about them.

Differences

Even though these sections go as one sometimes, it is crucial to know what content suits each of them. For instance, in Results, you can’t use the sources from Introduction, Literature Review or Methodology. On the other hand, Discussion shouldn’t contain any new sources, only those from Literature Review and Results.

Why so? Let’s step back to the purpose of Literature Review. Its aim is to collect useful information related to the topic and identify the research gap – what is not known. When there is no research gap, the study can’t contribute to the research and becomes useless.

If the core of your study contains mainly the sources you used previously, it may mean only two things. Either there is no gap in knowledge or you couldn’t find the sources to answer the research questions. In both cases, the study becomes irrelevant.

The purpose of Discussion is to later get back to the ideas from Literature Review. Remember that in dissertations, all chapters are interconnected. If the review presented at least one theory, it is a must to take your results and comment on whether they support the theory or disprove it.

Even if you didn’t use theories, the outcomes of your research should be compared to the previous studies. Comment not only on similarities. Professors do not like Discussion with few analytical ideas. The latter comes directly from the differences you notice between your outcomes and someone else’s.

What Sources to Choose for Results?

The chapter requires specific sources. It should be taken into account as early as possible, but not after Methodology is written. When Methodology promises to use the sources the student hasn’t seen, you risk making a lot of changes.

First, read the literature, find the gap, and what sources can bridge it. In case you’re busy with the preliminary research, you may order it or any other chapter from Essay Service to save your time.

If Literature Review or Introduction may contain any kind of quality sources, Results must be built upon primary ones. If the research is primary, they can be:

• responses from the people you surveyed;
• experiments conducted by you in a lab;
• action research, intervention;
• photos taken by you (usually, suitable for arts or areas connected to it.)

When you can’t conduct primary research, secondary research will require one or several types of primary sources in Results:

• articles whose authors conducted trials, experiments, or interviews, used questionnaires;
• official reports (e.g. Samsung yearly reports to compare the business dynamics;)
• already published codebooks based on surveys (often, national ones;)
• pieces of media (ads, speeches, songs, videos, TV broadcast, press, forums, social media posts;)
• primary books (e.g. work of a prominent author introducing a theory for the first time.)

What to avoid:

• literature review articles;
• systematic literature review and meta-analysis/meta-synthesis articles;
• any other sources analyzing something that has been done by another researcher.

The sources above are secondary and, even when allowed by the supervisor, can comprise not more than 20% of the literature from Results.

Not to confuse the terms, remember that your dissertation will be the primary source if you choose something from the first list. Also, somebody else will be able to include your work in their Results chapter. Meanwhile, the options from the second list will still help you to contribute to research but make your study secondary.

Layout

When starting Results, don’t forget about a short introduction. It should explain the source(s) and type of information. Remind the reader about what data analysis you used. Be careful, some students tend to repeat the whole Methodology or aim/objectives/questions of the study. The latter is sometimes requested in guidelines, but not that often.

After that, you should follow what you wrote in Methodology. If you chose statistical analysis, the information could be grouped according to the tests. Thematic analysis will require thematic structure.

If the study is mixed and you have either different types of data or both secondary and primary research, be careful. Students tend to mix all information without a clear structure in that case. Choose what makes sense to you, use logic.

Sometimes, it is possible to answer each research question using both primary and secondary research or mixed data. In that case, structure Results according to the questions (or hypotheses.)

If there are questions for the qualitative part and hypotheses/other questions for quantitative, split the chapter according to the type of data. Do not get distracted by the demographics too much. When the major part of the section consists of tables with the age of participants or their gender, a low mark is guaranteed.

In case there is only primary research, it means that Results won’t contain any external sources. Then, there is no need for standard citations, but do not forget to cite visual items created by you: “(Source: Author, 2021).”

The structure of Discussion may vary as well. Some supervisors advise duplicating the themes from Literature Review for a clear comparison. The technique is simple and minimizes the risk that you will deviate from what you are writing about.

Sometimes, Discussion is structured according to objectives or research questions/hypotheses as well. Mind that it’s not recommendable to structure all chapters identically. You can’t conduct thematic analysis both in Results and Discussion (unless they are one chapter.)

Also, do not put figures in both chapters or refer to those in Discussion. Place all percentages and graphs in Results. In Discussion, make rather general references.

For instance, you may look at a percentage from Results and at another one from Literature Review. Then compare them in your head and write that your study noticed a higher prevalence than another author did.

Don’t forget that the chapters demand critical analysis. If you honestly discuss what drawbacks and advantages your study has, the supervisor will appreciate it. Good luck!

Recent data shows that over 230,000 work-related accidents occur every year, according to the CDC. A workplace accident can happen to anyone at any given time, even if health and safety protocols are being followed. However, some can be so devastating that they lead to severe physical injuries, preventing the employer from returning to their workplace. While the long road to recovery can be difficult, all it takes is a new perspective to give yourself a fresh start. Here are three ways to cope and stay positive after an injury.

Keep Looking Ahead

Disability after an accident in the workplace is not an uncommon occurrence, and should be managed patiently throughout the recovery process. Coming to terms with your physical or mental disability can be a daunting task, but it can also broaden your perspective of what you can accomplish in the next stage of your career. It is crucial that you are aware of the disability benefits you will receive: a personal injury lawyer will know what you are entitled to and how to receive all the benefits available to you. After all, it may take a while to gain your independence and confidence to re-apply for new positions if you are unable to continue your previous work.

Investigate Your Options

Before your career, you may have had a different plan or a set of options that you were considering instead. So why not take the leap now? Although there may be limits to what you can do, recent changes in the workforce have now made it possible to work-from-home. This is rather helpful if you are unable to physically return to work, regardless of your medical reasons.

Set New Goals

Being patient is one of the hardest challenges when you’re trying to stay positive after an injury. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Develop a plan of action that will get you motivated after your body recovers. Start thinking of new ambitions and goals to set for yourself, whether they be starting a new career or simply taking on new hobbies.

As long as there is hope for recovery, consider applying for additional courses and certificates to help broaden your mind. There are still many options that will allow you to reach new goals and even discover a new career path. After all, maintaining a positive outlook for what’s to come and finding things that you enjoy is a great way to battle against frustration.

Conflict… is a theme that has occupied the thinking of man more than any other, save only God and love.
—Anatol Rapoport (American Mathematical Psychologist)

Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
—Jules Renard (French Author, Diarist)

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles—whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled—is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these “anti-conditions,” your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.
—Ryszard Kapuscinski (Polish Journalist)

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth.
—Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)

People are never free of trying to be content.
—Murray Bookchin (American Political Thinker)

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
—Thomas Merton (American Trappist Monk)

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
—Pasquier Quesnel (French Theologian)

You should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.
—Daniel Kahneman (American-Israeli Psychologist, Economist)

The noble title of ‘dissident’ must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
—Christopher Hitchens (Anglo-American Social Critic)

Vicissitude of fortune which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, but buries empires and cities in a common grave.
—Edward Gibbon (English Historian)

True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.
—Steve Pavlina (American Motivational Speaker)

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
—Georges Bataille (French Essayist, Intellectual)

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American Humanitarian)

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
—Octave Mirbeau (French Author)

The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.
—Jianzhi Sengcan (Chinese-Buddhist Monk)