Thoughtful Thursday

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
- Erich Fromm

"A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities."
- Herman Melville

"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
- Aristotle

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan