I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866), “Religion in Disease,” 1865

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

The only victories that have ever stuck were spiritual. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)