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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. — Marcel Proust
- Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust