This isn't life in the fast lane. It's life in the oncoming traffic.
-Terry Pratchett
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
-Paulo Coelho
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of ‘I’, ‘me’, and ‘mine’ to be united with the Lord. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality.
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
-Theodor W. Adorno