On Living:

Epicurus writes: "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus writes: "We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink."

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [Letter One]: "I want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling, in your most hushed hour, can perhaps answer."