Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

Francis Wright

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Havelock Ellis

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

William Osler

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Shelby Foote

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that theres nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Terry Pratchett

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Whe

Emerson said that music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art.

Leo Tolstoy

That leaves 93 percent of potential untapped. Humans only use 10 percent of the brain and 7 percent of company databases, yet we

Christina Bultinck, Mine Your Ow

To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

Charles Dickens

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud

I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.

Coco J. Ginger