You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton