Maria

“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Keeping an open mind is a virtue—but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark