Igor

“But a man whose business is sedentary should get some kind of exercise if he wishes to keep himself in as good physical trim as his brethren who do manual labor.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt: Complete and Unabridged with Appendices and Notes

“If I were to start a file on things nobody tells you about until you’re right in the thick of them, I might begin with miscarriages. A miscarriage is lonely, painful, and demoralizing almost on a cellular level. When you have one, you will likely mistake it for a personal failure, which it is not. Or a tragedy, which, regardless of how utterly devastating it feels in the moment, it also is not. What nobody tells you is that miscarriage happens all the time, to more women than you’d ever guess, given the relative silence around it. I learned this only after I mentioned that I’d miscarried to a couple of friends, who responded by heaping me with love and support and also their own miscarriage stories. It didn’t take away the pain, but in unburying their own struggles, they steadied me during mine, helping me see that what I’d been through was no more than a normal biological hiccup, a fertilized egg that, for what was probably a very good reason, had needed to bail out.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“When things go wrong, simplify.”
― Dan John, Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning