There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
- - Carl Gustav Jung

When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'Happy'. They told me that I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them that they didn't understand life.
- John Lennon
Philosophy Corner in the flesh is this Sunday at 7.30pm. Thoughts, ideas, maybe a little wisdom, and certainly some laughs. See the entry in the Events section.

I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see "hits," and discourage exploration.
  --Roger Ebert

Love this one!
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.
– Unknown
Appeals to the cynic in me, as well as the pessimist!

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Laurence wrote:
This quote is also use by Neil Gaiman in his book American Gods (excellent read if you have never read it). The August 2012 National Geographic has a great cover story about Crazy Horse and the "rebirth of the Sioux Nation." If you get a chance, pick one up.

Answers come from surprising places. Some years ago, I was relaxing and reading a Ludlum novel (aha, my secret's out!) and I read a sentence that helped answer a question perplexing me at the time. That is just one reason that I love the following:
So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
  --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland