"There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago."

-- Ray Stannard Baker

#Pain Quotes #Long Quotes #Serenity Quotes

“From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.”
“There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.”
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”
“I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.”

Source : "My Way" (song) (1969). Translation of a French song by Claude Francois and Jacques Revaux.
“It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.”
“Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.”
“A thing well done is worth doing.”
“[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.”

Source : Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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