Ryan Chae

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and
patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
― John Stuart Mill

“Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.”
― Mark Twain

“He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays