Jack Rafferty

“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
― T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone

“To dare a thought is to risk being wrong.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
― Zen Shin

“We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction