Tim Cook

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer –committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.