Worse than war is fear of war.

Seneca

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

Joan Miro

Life is short and it hurts. Love is the only drug that works.

John Coit

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

C.W. Leadbeater

Man with wooden leg escapes prison. He’s caught. They take his wooden leg away from him. Each day he must cross a large hill and swim a wide river to get to the field where he must work all day on one leg. This goes on for a year. At the Christmas party they give him back his leg. Now he doesn’t want it. His escape is all planned. lt requires only one leg.

James Tate

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy - that’s the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached — to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.

Robert Bly

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville