Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.