Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Barry McGuigan

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Guru Nanak

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Thomas Jefferson

At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

Paulo Coelho

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Russel H. Conwell

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Heinrich Heine

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Charles Horton Cooley

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut