quotes about being yourself and happy

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish



When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James



Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward. ~Terri Guillemets



You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law. ~Lyn Beth Neylon



The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson



There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog. ~Edward Abbey



Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. ~Epictetus



Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ~Steve Polyak



History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~Joseph Heller, Good as Gold



Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)



Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey



I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~Russell Lynes



There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have. ~Trey Parker, mini-commentary on DVD South Park episode "Butt Out"



It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Unknown author, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs



We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~Frank A. Clark



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