• KATE. "If I was a husband- it is my advice to all of them- I would often watch my wife quietly, to see whether the twelve-pound look was not coming into her eyes." -J.M. Barrie, The Twelve-Pound Look
• One has to study out of self-defence from loneliness" -William Lyle Bryan (Emory Class of 1912)
• Misery is a product of the gap between reality and desire" -Epictetus.
• The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."...It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision- it is then that Friendship is born. __And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude.__(pp. 64-66) The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
• Lovers seek for privacy. Friends find this solitude about them, this barrier between them and the herd, whether they want it or not. They would be glad to reduce it. The first two would be glad to find a third. ...The friends will still be doing something together, but something more inward, less widely shared, and less easily defined; still hunters, but of some immaterial quarry; still collaborating, but in some work the world does not, or not yet, take account of; still travelling companions, but on a different kind of journey. Hence we picture lovers face to face but Friends side by side; their eyes look ahead. (pp. 64-66) The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
• They say a sage philosopher of old being so poor and miserable that he lived on the few plain herbs he could collect, on day exclaimed "could any man be poorer or sadder than mself?" -when, turning around, he saw the very answer to his words. For there another sage philospher was picking up the scraps he'd thrown away. (392) Life is a Dream.
• Fortune, as if the admirer of such rare virtues, decided to reveal through many adversities and the sting of misfortunes, in order to demonstrate that in the tender breast of a woman accompanied by singular beauty, there may exist prudence and strength of spirit and all those virtues that even in the sternest of men are most rare. (1.4. pg.204-5) Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
• MOE: What do you want, my head on a plate?! Was my life so happy? Chris, my old man was a bum. I supported the whole damn family - five kids and Mom. When they grew up they beat it the hell away like rabbits. Mom died. I went to the war; got clapped down like a bedbug; woke up in a room without a leg. What the hell do you thinkg, anyone's got it better than you? I never had a home either. I'm lookin' too!

HENNIE: So what?! MOE: So you're it- you're home for me, a place to live! That's the whole parade, sickness, eating out your heart! Sometimes you meet a girl - she stops it- that's love...So take a chance! Be with me, Paradise. What's to lose? HENNIE: My pride! MOE: What do you want? Say the word - I'll tango on a dime. Don't gimme ice when your heart's on fire! -Awake And Sing by Clifford Odets