Paul Vaughan

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain