Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
-John Flavel
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
-Epicurus
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
Vacuity, tranquillity, mellowness, quietness and taking no action characterise things of the universe at peace and represent the ultimate Tao and virtue. Therefore abide in them.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-Bertrand Russell