"Instead of always asking yourself how to..." - Quote by Guy Finley

“True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.”

“No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.”

“The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.”

“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

“You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.”

“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.”

“May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.”

“If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?”