"How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us."

-- Orison Swett Marden

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“Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”

Source : Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.32, David R. Godine Publisher
“I have long ties to the women's community.”

Source : "Donna Shalala : The Administration's Point Woman at Health and Human Services". Interview with David Lauter, articles.latimes.com. July 18, 1993.
“I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.”
“Is this true or only clever?”
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the worldâ€”I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

Source : World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
“That was probably one of the things that if I look back at my career and say what is something I would try and do a little bit differently, Iâ€™d try and be a little bit more loose playing the game. Have a little more fun doing it.”
“I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.”
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.”

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