You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. - Voltaire

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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are._ Chinese Proverb

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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

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God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know.

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire

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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. ― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

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We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is. — Achea Redd

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