If you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice-well then you’re going to get fucked. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead, Today and tomorrow are yet to be said, The chances, the changes are all yours to make, The mold of your life is in your hands to break. The Hobbit

Underneath the topmost layers of frailty, men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. The Practice of Psychological Assessment

Keeping up appearances, living in borrowed finery, wearing masks, the drapery of convention, play-acting for the benefit of others and oneself ... the constant fluttering of human beings around the one flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that there is virtually nothing which defies understanding so much as the fact that an honest and pure drive towards truth should ever have emerged in them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and dream-images; their eyes merely glide across the surface of things and see 'forms'; nowhere does their perception lead to truth. The Gay Science