Cara

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― Carl Jung

“Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
― John Gardner

“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.

['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”
― Thomas Mann