#ld

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

#essence #external #external things #happiness #his

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#always #because #competitive #did #even

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #deeply #into #north #north america

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#arts #cause #disgrace #educated #every

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#couple #did #generosity #grandfather #hand

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. ↗

— Jack Vance

#beginning #could #ending #good #graceful

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#compromises #discarded #etiquette #field #find

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#her #modern #own #rule #should

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me. ↗

— Gloria Vanderbilt

#belong #came #had #i #knew

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me. ↗

— Amber Frey

#could #hope #just #know #me