Metaphysics and Woody Allen

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Woody Allen

What really is realistic?

We have been taught to believe that negative equals
realistic and positive equals unrealistic

- Susan Jeffers

Suffering/Challenge

I don't know a soul that hasn't been battered
Don't have a friend who feels at ease
Don't know of a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees

- Paul Simon, American Tune

Love made clear

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of
separation.

Kahlil Gibran

Beauty

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's
deep enough.
What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

Locks

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock
every other one.
I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks,
they are always locking three.

Elayne Boosler

Wordsworth on the Human Heart

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Wordsworth