Be who you are

See a flower with your heart and emotions

We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.

Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".