You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
~ Frank Herbert
He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.
~ Ron Suskind
He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.
~ Harry Turtledove
Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.
~ A.a. Milne
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.
~ David Halberstam
the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.
~ Lisa Lantieri
What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
He forced himself into good spirits.
~ H.w. Brands
The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
~ Jen Pollock Michel
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.
~ Charles Dickens
He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Children who are well nurtured and whose parents help them learn how to calm down when they are upset, for instance, seem to develop greater strength in the brain’s circuits for managing distress
~ ;Lisa Lantieri
