Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice.
-George Eliot
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Jains insist on having their separate food counters even at others' weddings. It
is really difficult to understand, though they seem to be okay otherwise, what
problem they have in mingling with people?
-Deep Trivedi
Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t but because you can.