Zen Tada

“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates