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“Accept favours only if you plan to do greater favours in return”
― Democritus

“Love and courage, man—the two most important things. I don’t move forward with fear anymore—I move forward with curiosity.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Martin Sheen turned to me and said, 'Do you know what Saint Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?' When I looked blankly, the man who was once president said, 'Peter says, 'Don't you have any scars?' And when most would respond proudly, 'Well no, no I don't,' Peter says, 'Why not? Was there nothing worth fighting for?”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Deeply ingrained in the infantile cycle is the conscious or unconscious assumption that the cure for depression is to replace it with pleasant happy feelings, whereas the only valid cure for any kind of depression lies in the acceptance of the real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply a palliative, minus foundations for the next depression. The roots of our neurosis lie here, and the conflict between the longing for growth and freedom and our incapacity or refusal to pay the price and suffering of the kind which challenge is the supremacy of the ego's demands”
― Helen M. Luke, The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine