"I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life."

“To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”

“Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.”

“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”

Source : Robert Burton (1955). “The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text”

“Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.”

“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”

“Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.”

“It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.”