TJ

“Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, “delving into the things that lie beneath” and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them, never realizing that all you have to do is to be attentive to the power inside you and worship it sincerely. To worship it is to keep it from being muddied with turmoil and becoming aimless and dissatisfied with nature—divine and human. What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad—as terrible a blindness as the kind that can’t tell white from black.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
― Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market

“talk about her mind
compliment her eyes more
she's too rare
for average compliments”
― R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words & a Shovel I