The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
There are two ways to slide easily though life: To believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.