" Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. "

— swami vivekananda

" Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. "

— Thomas Wolfe

" It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. "

— Seneca

" True friends don’t judge each other; they judge other people together. "

— Unknown

" The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. "

— Jonathan Safran Foer

" If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. "

— Andy Rooney