Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.