"If you think that you are handicapped in some way, you will find that your compensation for it is a quality that you wouldn't have cultivated if it were not for that innate flaw. Indeed, one is never so strong as when one is broken."

~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Awakening: A Sufi Experience

"Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you --- indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you."

~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Ibn al 'Arabi, Awakening: A Sufi Experience

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

~Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

"We cannot choose what we are, yet what are we, but the sum of our choices?"

~Rob Grant, Backwards

"Don't trust Time. Time will always get you in the end."

~Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Better Than Life

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

"A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath."

~Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

"I don’t like when I can’t control what reality is doing. Which is unfortunate because reality works independently of the things I want, and I have only a limited number of ways to influence it, none of which are guaranteed to work."

~Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened