“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”

Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

“One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever, but what's wrong with that, really?”

Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist

“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

“It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.”

G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer

“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)