nonchalance

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant.