Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it - Henry Miller http://j.mp/Sj4OfI
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness - Bertrand Russell
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self - Aldous Huxley
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yoursel - Henry David Thoreau
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition - Carl Sagan
The idea of progress is detrimental to the life of the spirit, because it encourages us to view our lives, not under the aspect of eternity, but as moments in a universal process of betterment. We do not, therefore, accept our lives for what they are, but instead consider them always for what they might someday become - John Gray
Suffering comes down to our steadfastly, and often unconsciously, holding to a core point of view that somehow just who we are, and just how life is, is fundamentally not okay and should be different. That is the lens through which we view existence, and we are usually blind to it, and thus, rather than changing the lens, we devote ourselves to perpetually rearranging the picture, via the various and exotic forms of our seeking - Eliezer Sobel, http://www.realitysandwich.com/suffering_seeking_and_sanity
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well - William Shakespeare
Sometimes, it is an appropriate response to reality to go insane - Philip K. Dick
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself - Basho