When we feel ready to love, we want people to love us, without thinking that this demand takes away the genius of love.
I want to become what I am: a child made of light.
Katherine Mansfield
Addictions: it is easier to uproot them than to curb them.
Seneca
The virtuous man acts with ease, firmness and joy.
Thomas Aquinas
Ask yourself if you are happy and you will no longer be happy.
John Stuart Mill
Try to present yourself approved to God. - 2 Timothy 2:15
Paul of Tarsus