"Remember this; that very little is needed to make a happy life."

~Marcus Antonius

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

~Sir James Matthew Barrie
(1860—1937)

"God made my body and if it is dirty, then the imperfection lies with the Manufacturer, not the product."

~Lenny Bruce

"Self-examination is usually a half-hearted, spontaneous thing we do when we're either scared or bored."

~Jonathan Carroll

"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."

~Chinese proverb

"To be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

~E.E. Cummings
poet (1984—1962)

"A life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think."

~Adolf Eichmann

"It is the eye which makes the horizon."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803—1882)

"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."

~William Faulkner

"When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much."

~Fen-Yang

"I don't like obscurity because I consider obscurity to be a form of despotism. One must expose oneself to pronouncing errors. One must expose oneself to possibly saying things which are probably going to be difficult to express, and which obviously are going to make one fumble for words."

~Michel Foucault

"Never underestimate man's ingenuity in masterminding his own destruction."

Harkur, "In Conquest Born"

~C.S. (Celia) Friedman
writer

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."

"Good Omens"

~Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

"It is beneath human dignity to loose one's self and become a mere cog in the machine."

~Mahatma Gandhi
(1869—1848)

"Take it from me: the slave of introspection
Is like a beast on arid waste
By some foul fiend led round and round,
While, all about, green meadowlands abound."

Mephistopheles, "Faust"

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, & natural philosopher (1749—1832)

"Desire creates its own object."

~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him. And then choose that way with all his strength."

~Hasidic saying

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

~Hermann Hesse

"Great trees are envied by the wind."

~Japanese proverb

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."

~Bede Jarrett

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

~Carl Jung
psychologist (1875—1961)

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The average person thinks he isn't."

~Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Cease trembling and shaking and gasping and cursing and find again your core which I am. Rest from twistedness, distortion, deformations. For an hour you will be me; that is, the other half of yourself. The half you lost. What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands: I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble."

~Anaïs Nin

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