This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.
-Rumi
One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato