So I do my homework.  I bought the journal and I write in it every day, one page daily.  It has been seven days now.  Has my physical and mental health improved?  Maybe, it’s hard to say.  I have another “diary,” the idea is to write three pages every day at the beginning of the day.  I force myself to do it consistently.  I guess I figured out my major problem – it just stares right in my face.  But leaving these cryptic generalizations alone, I will just post the quotes, that inspired my writing in the “In my humble opinion” journal the past week.

Hell is other people. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. (Oscar Wilde)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams).

This world is made up for most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. (Clarence Darrow)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

Many people would sooner die than think.  In fact, they do. (Bertrand Russell)

Such is the human race.  Often it does seem such a pity that Noah … didn’t miss the boat.  (Mark Twain)

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. PARACELSUS

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. BERTRAND RUSSELL

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. CARL SAGAN

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. JULES DE GAULTIER

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other people!  A weird life it is, indeed, to be always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real! THOMAS MERTON

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it we go nowhere. CARL SAGAN

To live is the rarest thing in the world.  Most people exist, that is all. OSCAR WILDE

Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere. ALBERT EINSTEIN

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. MARCUS AURELIUS

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. BERTRAND RUSSELL

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serous danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.  (Oscar Wilde)

Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world.  Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming or tedious.  I take the side of the charming…  (Oscar Wilde)

- If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

- That is a paradox, sir.  I hate paradoxes.

- So do I, father.  Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays.  It is a great bore.  It makes society so obvious.

- Do you always really understand what you say, sir?

- Yes, father, if I listen attentively.

(Oscar Wilde)

Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad.  Besides, there is this to be said.  If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.  If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t.  Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.  (Oscar Wilde)

Women have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.  (Oscar Wilde)

Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. (Oscar Wilde)