"I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will."

“Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.”

Source : Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”

“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”

“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.”

“Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.”

“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.50, Grove Press

“Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.”

Source : "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

“Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.”

Source : "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.