"We must for dear life make our own counter-realities."

“It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.”

“It's crazy how your mind works because you can receive hundreds and thousands of all these love posts and all this good affirmation on Instagram or Twitter. And then that one person writes one thing that dims your light but that's the thing you can't let it dim your light, because what I've realized - it's really not your problem, it's theirs.”

Source : "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.

“Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.”

“Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!”

“I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.”

“Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are”

Source : Joan Crawford (2017). “My Way of Life”, p.79, Graymalkin Media

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

“Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”