“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Human lips are now forbidden to utter His name, for being the only God, He needs no name.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

“In Switzerland everything that is not forbidden is legal.”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

“Love isn't rational, it's instinctive”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”

Stefan Zweig book Beware of Pity

“Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?”

David Zindell book Neverness