Angel

“The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intuitive to you and everyone else that in a perfect world it would simply be considered standard; but, in reality, in our flawed world, what should be considered standard is actually so rare that it has to be elevated to the level of “perfect.” This is the type of perfect that makes you and most other people think, “Why isn’t everything like this? Why is it so hard to find …” a black V-neck cotton sweater, or a casual non-chain restaurant with comfortable booths, etc.—“that is just exactly the way everyone knows something like this should be?” “Perfect,” we all say with relief when we finally find something like this that is exactly as it should be. “Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”
The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“We suffer because we overlook the fact that, at heart, we are all right.”
― Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious