When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds.
— Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
— Sam Rayburn
The things you own end up owning you.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
— Bob Dylan
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
— Solon
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
— Victor Hugo
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
— Joseph Rickaby
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.
— Kathleen Casey Theisen
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
— Muhammad Ali, "More Than a Hero"
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
— Thomas Moore
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