It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
-José Saramago
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller
The reach of entire science is within the parameters of time and space... Whereas
all the mysteries of the world are beyond time and space. This is the reason why
many mysteries will always remain mysteries for science.
-Deep Trivedi
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
-Oscar Wilde