"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."

“Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.”

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2014). “The Assassin's Blade”, p.222, A&C Black

“In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.”

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Source : Matsuo Basho (2014). “Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages”, p.31, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

“You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.”

“I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.”

“If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.”

Source : Ocean Pleasant Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles”