"But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.”

“It needs more skill than I can tellTo play the second fiddle well.”

“The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.”

“When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant”

“Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.”

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”

“A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.”

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”