"A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here),..."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest."
- Louisa May Alcott
"One should use common words to say uncommon things"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)"
- Charles M. Schulz
"Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know."
"Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic."
- Richie Norton
"The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constru..."
- Chuck Klosterman
"We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer..."
- Samuel R. Delany
"... People were never quite what you thought they were."
- William Golding
"we know little of the things for which we pray"
- Geoffrey Chaucer