#mos

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #be happy #difficult #easy #happier

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#influence #limit #most #must #nations

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#changed #dorky #i #i always #mostly

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#automatically #become #best #chosen #determine

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#august #day #days #dreams #ending

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#americana #catching #discovered #hamburgers #i

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#back #come #daughter #did #i

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gave #life #man #me #most

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#just #made #money #most #much

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#early #enough #fast #had #hours