Mars

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me - even if you could - how I know that. I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that's the way Cal has always felt, Mr. Trask. All his life! Maybe you didn't mean it that way - but it's true. You never gave him your love. You never asked for his. You never asked him for one thing.

EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan

“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.”

— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius

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“The mind requires some relaxation, and cannot always support its bent to care and industry.”

— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

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“Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Prisons, which are considered as preventive of anti-social deeds, are exactly the institutions for breeding them… Absence of education, dislike of regular work, physical incapability of sustained effort, misdirected love of adventure, gambling propensities, absence of energy, an untrained will, and carelessness about the happiness of others… it is exactly these defects of human nature — each one of them — which the prison breeds in its inmates; and it is bound to breed them because it is a prison, and will breed them so long as it exists.”

— Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist

The Garden In The Rue Cortot At Montmartre (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir