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“Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.” Shannon L. Alder

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. Cynthia Ozick

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at. Kyle Hill

Cure for an obsession: get another one. Mason Cooley

"Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent." Harlan Coben

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart. Oscar Wilde

Man is a bubble, and all the world is a storm. Jeremy Taylor

"I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." Antonio Gramsci (in a letter from prison, December 1929)

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. Dan Millman

It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details. Jorge Paulo Lemann

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy. Ellie Wiesel

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." George Burns

“A degree of self-deception, she said, was an essential part of the talent for living.” Rachel Cusk