There are always alternatives.
-- Spock, "The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3

What would it take for you to change your mind?

"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because
it isn't here."

-Finley Peter Dunne

"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."

-Pythagoras

"It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse."

-Gabriel Honoré Marcel

"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick."

-Lin Yutang

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
-Erich Fromm

“Grief and anger shrink my world, and I resent this. They seem to paralyze my memory of happier times, of friends, places, things; options. Squeezed by the grip of intense, unsettling emotion, I grow smaller in my single-mindedness."
-Roger Zelazny

"Freedom will prove to have been merely an interlude. Freedom is felt when passing from one way of living to another - until this too turns out to be a form of coercion."
-Byung-Chul Han

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
-Matsuo Basho

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day - Sophocles