"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." Andre Dubus

"Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality." Pema Chodron

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles

"It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." From The Matrix

“Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction.” Wendell Berry

“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.” Gary Zukav, author (1942- )