„To resign oneself or to blow out one’s brains, that is the choice one faces at certain moments. In any case, the only real dignity is that of exclusion.“

— Emil M. Cioran
„Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„Happinessis not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„Only those moments count when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than to exchange a word with someone.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.“
— Hazrat Inayat Khan