#not

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#actually #assume #become #breaks #damaging

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#changes #consisted #contentment #else #existence

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. ↗

— William Manchester

#age #another #any #came #corps

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#notoriety #success #age

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ↗

— Bernard Manning

#batteries #bought #i #included #kids

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#absolutely #certain #everything #know #must

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired. ↗

— John LaFarge

#cannot #past #repaired #though

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#checked #misery #population #power #producing

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#equal justice #got #idea #just #justice