People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Goldacre

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Savage Landor

Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.

C. JoyBell C.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

John Donne

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland

Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.

Emily Giffin

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Hesiod

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

W. Winwood Reade

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Dag Hammarskjold

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig