"We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Happiness Quotes #Pain Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.”

Source : "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
“I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.”
“I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.”
“John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.”
“Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.”
“Think what you want, this is what we are.”

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