"You will change your mind, but you are not free.
Your moment of freedom was yesterday.
You made a decision. You set in motion
Forces in your life and in the lives of others
Which cannot be reversed. That is one consideration.
And another is this: it is a serious matter
To bring someone back from the dead."
-T.S. Eliot (in the play The Cocktail Party)
"People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." - F.M. Alexander
"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible." --Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
"Is it perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." -William Arthur Ward
“Our emotions are strongly determined by how much we talk to ourselves and how we interpret the events happening around us. A great deal of energy, time, and attention can be wasted on small and insignificant incidents just because they are continually being replayed in our minds.” - Canfield and Chee (pg. 85)
"Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes." -- Justice John Roberts
