Grace M

“33. It's normal to feel pain in your hands and your feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal -- if he's living a normal human life.
And if it's normal, how can it be bad?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A.- I'm not sure about good and evil at all anymore.
Q. - Is that a bad sign in itself?
A.- Not necessarily.
Q.- What would be the test of corruption?
A. - Becoming really insincere -- calling myself "not such a bad fellow," thinking I regretted my lost youth when I only envy the delights of losing it. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state that they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood -- she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“37. If you've seen the present, then you've seen everything -- as it's been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: The Thoughts of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)

“39. The things ordained for you -- teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you -- treat them with love.
With real love.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations