We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm
No work stains an individual who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster