You make a choice when you decide how you will react to any given situation. If you’re choosing to complain and think negatively, your natural reaction will be to dwell on the negatives of every situation.

Bad Things Do Happen; How I Respond To Them Defines My Character And The Quality Of My Life.

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

His writings include books of rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters. He is remembered in modern times as the greatest Roman orator and the innovator of what became known as Ciceronian rhetoric.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

If guys practiced self-control, ‘modesty’ wouldn’t be such a huge deal.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.

You could put all the hearts together in the world and that still wouldn't describe how much I love you

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

I was sitting in my living room and I was telling my husband water is coming through the back, it was already flooded. Then the police captain came and told us to evacuate. My house is flooded.

The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it.