Nothing records the effects of a sad life as graphically as the human body.

Naguib mahfouz (in Palace of desire)

Religion is recognized by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius annaeus seneca (via edward gibbon)

Comparison is the thief of joy.

theodore roosevelt

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Epicurean Epitaph

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

william james