Melina In Braces Quotes & Sayings

Do not disturb yourself by thinking of the whole of your life. Do not let your thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles that you may expect to befall you: but on every occasion ask yourself, What is there in this that is intolerable and past bearing? For you will be ashamed to confess. In the next place remember that neither the future nor the past pains you, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if you only circumscribe it and chide your mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this. — Marcus Aurelius

The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law. — Gene Wolfe

He that marries late, marries ill. — George Herbert

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. — Alberto Giacometti

All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom and equality; it is only an idea, but it has penetrated to all ranks of society ... Even the millionaire suffers from a vague sense of guilt, like a dog eating a stolen leg of mutton. — George Orwell

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. — Niccolo Machiavelli

For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning Psalm 30:5 (NIV) — Anonymous

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams. — Sergio Leone

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it. — M.C. Beaton

A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm! — Maddy Malhotra

I have the same friends I've had for years and the same family. Unless you love rock n' roll and Hollywood parties and having your photo taken, I don't think necessarily things need to change too much. — Theo James

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel. — Lena Headey