Robert

“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.”
― Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

“Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
― Henry David Thoreau