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“The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.”
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“I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.”
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“Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.”
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“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.”
Source : "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009. 
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“Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.”
Source : Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press
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“My family's the most important thing in my life.”
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“God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.”
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“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. ... People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”
Source : "The Process of Individuation". "Man and His Symbols". Book by Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, part 3, p. 163, 1964.
