The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
-Bertrand Russell
Whenever the dog and i see each other, we both stop where we are. We regard each other with a mixture of sadness and suspicion, and then we feign indifference. We walk past each other safely. We have an understanding.
-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
One who has virtue does not hold to virtue, and thus he is virtuous. One who is without virtue never strays from virtue, and thus he lacks virtue.
-Lao Tzu