a_strange_treat

My dear friend this very day showed me a delightful publication known as "The Sun." The back page has a list of seemingly random quotations under the heading, "Sunbeams."

Here are some of the quotes I most enjoyed:

"Avoid safety. The very word has a mean sound." -- Constance Wagner

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." -- Garrison Kiellior

"A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble." -- Henry Miller

"Live to the point of tears." -- Albert Camus

"Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?" -- Socrates (probably means Plato)

"In my day, we didn't have self esteem, we had self respect, and no more of it than we earned." -- Jane Haddam

" 'You are out of danger," he said. I laughed and said, "How can I be? I don't feel dead yet?" -- Margaret Laurence

"Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety." -- Christopher Morley