•"We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived." Anonymous

•"No one laughs at God in a hospital, no one laughs at God in a war, no one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor, no one's laughing at God when the doctor calls, after some routine tests, no one's laughing at God when it's gotten real late and their kid's not back from that party yet" Regina Spektor (Laughing With)

•"I know that I don't know" Socrates

•"Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it, we have something to hide." Susanna Kaysen

•“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.” C S Lewis

•Psalm 91

I want you to notice when I’m not around. - Rdiohead, Creep.

You have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk. - Charles Baudelaire