"I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune."

-- Herbert Spencer

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“If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.”
“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.”
“If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.”

Source : "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.
“It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes.”
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
“Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'”
“It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before...”
“God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.”

Source : Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.62, Psychology Press

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