Estoicar Quotes & Sayings

No voters will be left behind. — Donna Brazile

If this was another kind of story, I'd tell you about the sea — Junot Diaz

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker. — Sarah Rees Brennan

It is only after surrendering what we think our lives are supposed to be that we can step into everything that our lives are meant to be. — Mandy Hale

Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it. — John Wells

Every human being is ... equally unfree, that is, we ... create out of freedom, a prison ... — Otto Rank

I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure. — Gavin MacLeod

Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on. — Robert Herjavec

We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial condos, with established relationships between the upstairs and downstairs neighbors. Without these regular residents, our guts are easily taken over by less congenial newcomers looking for low-rent space. What keeps us healthy is an informed coexistence with microbes, rather than the micro-genocide that seems to be the rage lately. Germophobic parents can now buy kids' dinnerware, placemats, even clothing imbedded with antimicrobial chemicals. Anything that will stand still, if we mean to eat it, we shoot full of antibiotics. And yet, more than 5,000 people in the United States die each year from pathogens in our food. Sterility is obviously the wrong goal, especially as a substitute for careful work. — Barbara Kingsolver

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. — Peter Kreeft

Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon. — Alice Steinbach