“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.”
― Walt Whitman

"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
― Erich Fromm

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”
― Alan Watts

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Is that it?”
“No. That’s a wall.”
“It could be disguised.”
“You’re not very good at looking for things, are you?”
“I’m good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.”
― Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked

“'You have a wonderful personality.  Develop it.  Be yourself.  Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things.  Your affection is inside of you.  If only you could realize that, you would not want to be rich.  Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man.  Real riches cannot.  In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you.  And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you.  And try also to get rid of personal property.  It involves sordid preoccupation, endless industry, continual wrong.  Personal property hinders Individualism at every step.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

"If you are miserable when you are alone, you are obviously in bad company."
― Sadhguru

"Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you wil never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."
― Epictetus, The Enchiridion

"We face the enemy and contend with him—if he turns away we let him go."
― Sadami Yamada