But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Kenny Loggins

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

William Shakespeare

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...

Neil Gaiman

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Stephen King

The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur.

Victor Hugo

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Alexander Dumas

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

Wilhelm Reich

The healthy die first.

Italian Proverb