“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
Source: Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”
Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Neil Perry character
Context: Modified passage from the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Full citation:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Source: Confucius: The Analects
“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”
