[...]But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way. - Aldous Huxley

Éste es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: Amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento tiende a esto: a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social".

In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called “the Bitch Goddess, Success.” Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.