Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Branch Rickey

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

Raoul Vaneigem

Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Blaise Pascal

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

Anon.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (l

If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.

Vince Lombardi

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

Helen Keller