The Business that Stalketh about in the Dark will come on Saint Oblivious Day.
-Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice

If you think that only which is your own to be your own, and if you think that what is another's, as it really is, belongs to another, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame any man, you will accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily, no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.
-Epictetus, The Handbook

If you can't look on the bright side of things, you can always slam it into reverse and peel out.

-Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content

Between the hammer and the anvil, that's where steel is forged.

-Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

Nothing is more useful for mortals, than clear-minded skepticism.

-Euripides (translated by Emily Wilson), Helen

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Children come to displace. They live on the earth after you are gone, and forget you. It's not their fault.

-Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist