Al Owski

“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of those lovely odd things you're -not- looking for. For that pleasure, it seems, we need -books.-

(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Alan Jacobs, Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant

“By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.”
― Carl Jung

“A human being should never become a means to an end.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”
― George Orwell, 1984