Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. – William Hale White

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca