Janine

“Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“[The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity. Prophecies of all sorts are rife on such occasions, and are readily believed, whether for good or evil. During the great plague, which ravaged all Europe, between the years 1345 and 1350, it was generally considered that the end of the world was at hand. Pretended prophets were to be found in all the principal cities of Germany, France, and Italy, predicting that within ten years the trump of the Archangel would sound, and the Saviour appear in the clouds to call the earth to judgment.”
― Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds