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“and it was all he could do to restrain himself from shouting out: -
"It was work performed! And now you feed me, when then you let me starve, forbade me your house, and damned me because I wouldn't get
a job. And the work was already done, all done. And now, when I speak, you check the thought unuttered on your lips and hang on my
lips and pay respectful attention to whatever I choose to say. I tell you your party is rotten and filled with grafters, and instead
of flying into a rage you hum and haw and admit there is a great deal in what I say.
And why?
Because I'm famous; because I've a lot of money.
Not because I'm Martin Eden, a pretty good fellow and not particularly a fool. I could tell you the moon is made of green cheese and you would subscribe to the notion, at least you
would not repudiate it, because I've got dollars, mountains of them.
And it was all done long ago; it was work performed, I tell you, when vou spat upon me as the dirt under your feet.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden / The Sea Wolf

“Isn't it nice, I thought. Hearing the grandmother's gentle words and seeing the child's face suddenly turn adorable when she smiled, I became envious. I'd never see my own grandmother again. Never again.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“That the end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.”
― Brother Lawrence

“That we should no wonder if, in the beginning, we often failed in our endeavors, but that at last we should gain a habit, which naturally produce its act in us, without our care, and to our exceeding great delight.”
― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God: In Modern English