To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
—Dorothy Thompson
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.
—Kahlil Gibran
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.
—Fraser Tyler