Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Rene Descartes

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Neil Gaiman

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

William Shakespeare

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Samuel Butler

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Claire Weeks

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

Source Unknown

Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but vibrating at different frequencies), then you must respect yourself and everything and everyone around you.

Stephen Richards

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

George Eliot