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Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
I am not an ambitious guy, I have a very laidback attitude; money for me is less important than self-respect and ideals.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.
My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'
One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.