Barbara Carder

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
― Hermann Hesse

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
― John Lennon

“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
― Kobayashi Issa