Thea Bauer

“She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”
― Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf

“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. I: 1920-1925

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
― Henry Miller

“Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.”
― David Orr