I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

Elizabeth Goudge

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

St. Jerome

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Jon Hamm

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Baron William Henry Beveridge

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

George Herbert

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Ruth 1:16

Bible

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Source Unknown

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.

Christopher Hitchens

The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Thomas Szasz

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Jennifer Salaiz