Timothy Peacock

“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
― Marlon Brando

“It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left.”
― Auberon Waugh