It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of ones own view of the nature of ones relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. – Paul Watzlawick
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. – Emile Durkheim