Stephen

“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, “I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren’t going to want to go on living.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you’ll freeze to death, you’ll starve to death.” And so on. It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Clinging is born to someone who dwells on the spheres of the senses; desire is born from clinging; and anger is born from desire. 63”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“A poem by Ryokan comes to mind: Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing