"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

Courage is resistance to fear, not absence of it

"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."
- Richard Bach

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." - Dr Joyce Brothers

"Trust your hunches.... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Dr Joyce Brothers

"There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow." - Jane Austen, 19th century author