“A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was ‘calm, at peace.”
― Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.”
― Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams – this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
-Don Quioxite, The Man of La Mancha
“Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.”
― Liane Holliday Willey, Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger’s Syndrome
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
“You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo
