- An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper - Kahil Gibran
- I'll not listen to reason... Reason always means what someone else has got to say - Elizabet Gaskell
- No one knows whether death may not turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils - Socrates
- One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star - Nietzsche
- There is no coming to consciousness without pain - C.G. Jung
- The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. James Barrie
- Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. - Sir James Dewer