“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ― Norman Vincent Peale     “The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” ― Norman Vincent Peale     “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ― Norman Vincent Peale     “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ” ―…

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron     “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.” ― Nora Ephron     “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.” ― Nora Ephron     “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that…

“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.” ― Noam Chomsky       “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky       “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.” ― Noam Chomsky     “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable…