If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Albert Camus

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Theocritus

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia

Life is too precious to worry about what could or will happen. Life is..what you make it

E'yen A. Gardner

MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Comple

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

Thomas P. O'Neill

...He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, assured me that he himself was the person most concerned by the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that as far as his own power was concerned he had been afraid on only one occasion, which was when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit: 'Dearly beloved, never forget, when you hear anyone vaunt the progress of enlightenment, that the Devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!'

Charles Baudelaire, The Generous

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If you wanted me to rip off my shirt you could have just asked.

Cassandra Clare

Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.

Langdon Smith

Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heavens sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

Thomas Jefferson