Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Sarah Manguso

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Emerson

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X