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My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.
I'll not! The gents are impressed with the way that I'm dressed. I wouldn't change even one spot.
I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.
Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.