#ours

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. ↗

— Tecumseh

#fault #food #give #joy #lies

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#always #be true #becoming #control #culture

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk. ↗

— John Tesh

#because #buy #good #great #next

Credit you give yourself is not worth having. ↗

— Irving Thalberg

#give #having #worth #you #yourself

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. ↗

— Thales

#difficult #difficult thing #know #know yourself #life

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. ↗

— Zane Grey

#cloak #dark #folded #gone #had

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#ennui #exchange #hours #love #read

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter

In business for yourself, not by yourself. ↗

— William James

#yourself

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#controlled #course #development #endangered #others