All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

It's the things I might have said that fester.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is read more

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.