Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.