Manohla Dargis

Putting the world in Mr. Damon’s hands is as smart as making him the star of a big special-effects fantasia. At once preternaturally boyish and middle aged (he’s 42), Mr. Damon has become the greatest utility player in movies: No one can better vault across rooftops and in and out of genres and make you care greatly if he falls. He’s so homespun that he could have sprung wholly formed from a corn silo. But it’s the ease and sincerity with which Mr. Damon conveys moral decency — so that it feels as if it originates from deep within rather than from, say, God or country — that helps make him a strikingly contemporary ideal of what used to be regularly called the American character.

-The New York Times, The Worst is Yet to Come (review of Elysium), Aug 8 2013

Osho

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.

Unknown

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.

Unknown

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Unknown

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Unknown

Be strong; you never know who you are inspiring.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Unknown

When something goes wrong in your life, just yell, "Plot twist!" and move on.

Khmer saying

One can live in a cluttered house. One cannot live with a cluttered heart.

Stacy London

Style is about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not.

David Hume

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

H.L. Mencken

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." 

Jimmy Durante

Be awful nice to 'em going up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.