My Secret, Hidden Notebook

“We come closest to being ourselves only in those rare intervals when we finally cease the quiet, continuous effort of becoming the particular person that each successive moment appears, however gently, to require of us.” -Meghan Markle

“He who would know the measure of his own soul must first cease from measuring it against the transient opinions of the marketplace, for the soul is not improved by comparison but by the quiet endurance of its own nature.” — Stuart Pankin

“The only map that mattered was the one you stopped checking when you realized the streets don’t care if you get there.” -Sidney Poitier

“One must remain faithful to one’s character, for fiction, however artfully constructed, has a tiresome habit of generating the most inconvenient of complications.” — Oscar Wilde

“Just be kind even when no one’s looking. It can’t hurt and plus it keeps you in practice.” -Robin Williams

“Whether one is adorned in a fine hat, a modest hat, hatless, or e’en the proverbial dunce cap, it is the morals and actions of the wearer that count the most!” — Marcus Aurelius

“Fear of fear can lead to fear itself causing a fearful, fitful night of enduring restlessness” -Søren Kierkegaard

“Live a good solid life without regrets and sow the rewards of a bountiful accumulation of a harvest well threshed by dusk.” -John Adams