William Stonebraker

“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
― Thomas Merton

“once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right”
― Jerry Garcia

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
― Thomas Merton

“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.”
― Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries