"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on ... ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis, founder of REBT, one of the few 'talking therapies' that has been shown to be effective against depression by scientific experimentation.
"Politically, things can be done, genocide can be prevented and individuals can learn from history. Fundamentally, though, humankind is pretty crap." - Lindsey Hilsum.
"The child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1784
"The earth swarms with people who are not worth talking to" - Voltaire
"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing reality" - Oscar Wilde,
"It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night." - Chamfort
"What I dream of is an art of balance and purity, of serenity devoid of troubling and depressing subject matter" - Henri Matisse
