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- We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
- The Buddha
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), The Four Loves
- This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
- Thomas Love Peacock
- The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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