“The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
– Byron

“Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them.”
– Carl Jung

Zen Koan: “A thorn pricks you: It tells us the void is empty.”

“There are no gains without pains.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– M. Kathleen Casey

“Think of three Things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.”
– Marquis de Sade

“The only abnormality is the inability to love.”
– Anais Nin

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty.”
– Shakespeare

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
– Frank Herbert

“There’s nothing either good or bad … but thinking makes it so!”
– Shakespeare

“There is no terror in the bang … only in the anticipation of it.”
– Alfred Hitchcock

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
– Oscar Wilde