Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. Book II

“If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!” Eat That Frog!

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. What is art?

Their return home to their father and a good life was always so satisfying and splendid; I realized keenly that that was the only proper, good, and desirable outcome, but the part of the story that took place among the wicked and the lost was by far the more appealing, and, if one were free to state and admit it, it was sometimes actually a downright shame that the prodigal repented and was found again Demian