Grisolano Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a choice ... you cannot choose what happens, but you can choose your reaction to it and be Happy.-RVM — R.v.m.

They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses. A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul; he especially who is beforehand provided of such things within, which whensoever he doth withdraw himself to look in, may presently afford unto him perfect ease and tranquillity. — Marcus Aurelius

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from. — Nick Hornby

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful. — Garry Kasparov

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right. — Debasish Mridha

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it. — Nick Vujicic

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect. — Dean Koontz

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. — Dan Quayle

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data ... which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire living biosphere, that's the assemblage of 20 million species or so that constitute all the living creatures on the planet, and you have a genome for every species the total is still about one petabyte, that's a million gigabytes - that's still very small compared with Google or the Wikipedia and it's a database that you can easily put in a small room, easily transmit from one place to another. And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data. — Freeman Dyson