“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.”

C.S. Lewis quoted by Russ Kosits in Convivium Vol. 2 #11 (December 2013 - January 2014) - Kosits calls it “the ‘argument from desire’ made famous by C.S. Lewis”

In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the “Karen meets Marley” tale of people buying themselves an $825 Chanel advent calendar then ranting against it online.

“Of course, bitterness has its comforts, as every resentful person knows. It allows you to feel superior to the world without actually doing anything; it gives you permanent occupancy of the high moral ground. But as a way of life it is very unsatisfactory and restricting.”

Theodore Dalrymple in National Review March 24, 2003

“Keep a stiff upper chin.”

Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)

“for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.”

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

“The way some people find fault, you’d think there was a reward.”

On the bulletin board at the Nepean Sportsplex arts section November 4, 2017, unsourced

“He who has seen the present has seen everything, said Marcus Aurelius...”

Andrei Navrozov in Chronicles magazine June 1991

“When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.”

Harold B. Walker, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8, 2009