“"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper."”
"You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp
Balance
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
- Quentin Crisp
Belief in Self
"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."
- Quentin Crisp
Failure
"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
- Quentin Crisp
Family
"There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse."
- Quentin Crisp
Philosophy
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."
Contentment
"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."
Contentment