The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. The Picture of Dorian Gray

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. Man's Search For Meaning

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. Autumn Leaves

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. The Naval Treaty