We only want to take our wounds away
To some shy village where the tumult ends,
And drowsing in the sunshine many a day,
Forget our aches, forget that we had friends.
I am glad you are happy — but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed pages, they never really happen to you in life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (from a letter to his daughter)
If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.
I must tell you that I should really like to think there’s something wrong with me - because, if there isn’t, then there’s something wrong with the world itself - and that’s much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I’d rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
