Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too read more

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it read more

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from read more

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it read more

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of read more

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a read more

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for read more

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.