"After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice."

“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”

Source : Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam

“Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.”

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.”

“They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.”

“Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.”

“Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.”

Source : Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers