Experience is the extract of suffering.
-Arthur Helps
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.