The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russel

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.

— Robin Williams

Invictus

By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

— Audrey Hepburn

I'm just tryin' to get by, bein' quiet and shy,

In a world full of pushin' and shoven'

Jimmy Buffett

River gets deeper not shallow

The further you move down the stream

Wonderin' if I can keep up

As I race to keep up with my dreams

How they shine and glitter and gleam

Jimmy Buffett

Everything may seem broken, but that was just as true when I was growing up in the 1970’s and when my parents were growing up in the 1930’s. It is the story of humanity.

The Anxious Generation,

Jonathan Haidt