Mercelyn

“Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”
― Jack Woodford

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
― Alfred Adler, What Life Should Mean To You Hardcover