"Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy."

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Source : Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366

Robert Burton

#Mind Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Rich Quotes

“We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “The Careful Use of Compliments”, p.12, Anchor
“I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them”
“I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.”
“The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.”
“Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.”
“My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.”
“If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.”
“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

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