"If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself."
- Blaise Pascal
"We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us."
- Francois Rabelais
"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
"Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair."
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser
"Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages."
- Nichiren Daishonen
"The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that."
"All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
"I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me."
- Anais Nin