Shelly

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
― Mark Twain

“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”
― Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
― Charles Bukowski