Patrick

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“If their happiness was best served by leaving me, how would I feel about it?" This reveals the degree to which we are trying to restrict and control the other person--which is attachment and not love.”
― David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

“Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don’t stop doing business with him.”
― Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator