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Do you think parents at your school would rather their kid be depressed at Yale or happy at University of Arizona?" The colleague quickly replied, "My guess is 75 percent of the parents would rather see their kids depressed at Yale. They figure that the kid can straighten the emotional stuff out in his/her 20's, but no one can go back and get the Yale undergrad degree."1 — Julie Lythcott-Haims

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength. — Gautama Buddha

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. — Robert Breault

Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest. — Stephen Richards

The Luidaeg.
Something woke in me that remembered how to hope, because I recognized her as soon as I knew her name
the sea witch, Blind Michael's sister, who sent me to him in the first place. There were figures in the darkness behind her, but none of them mattered; the Luidaeg would save me if anyone could. I owed her, after all. She needed me alive to pay my debts. — Seanan McGuire

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will."
I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?"
"Love the sky. — Anne Fortier

He said, Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie. — Russell Banks

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. — Sonny Bono

We'll tell our secrets to the dark. — Gayle Forman

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals may be able to provide for themselves and their families but also that the goods which the Creator destined for the entire family of mankind may through this institution truly serve this purpose. — Pope Pius XI