You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."

- Quentin Crisp

Belief in Self

"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."

- Quentin Crisp

Failure

""Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.""

- Quentin Crisp

Contentment

"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."

- Quentin Crisp

Family

"There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse."

- Quentin Crisp

Philosophy

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"There is beauty in the Beast, just as there is darkness in the most perfect human."

- Beauty and the Beast

Balance

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

Balance

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"Make your Tuesday as productive as possible, but don’t forget to enjoy the journey."

Balance

"You can’t always hold on to the things that are important. By letting them go we gain something else."

- Kunio Yaobi

Balance