You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

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Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

—Jeph Jacques

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

—Jackie Mason

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

—Izaak Walton

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

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