You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
-Pearl. S. Buck
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
-Benjamin Franklin
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
-Henry David Thoreau
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver