John

“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. ”
― Hermann Hesse

“Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good. ”
― Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching: A New English Version