“Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.”

“But then of course everything always happens for a reason
I guess it was never meant to be
But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is”

“Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.”

“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

“We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.”