Ambrose Bierce - Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce - Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce - Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce - Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce - “Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”

Jim Rohn - Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Simone de Beauvoir - Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Henry David Thoreau - There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Toussaint Louverture - I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

St. Ambrose - No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks

Nadia Bolz-Weber - Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

r.h. Sin - Sometimes your soulmate is yourself. Sometimes you have to be the love of your life until you discover that type of love in someone else.

r.h. Sin - Be single and save yourself for a relationship that motivates you to become the best version of yourself. Be single until you find a love that resembles the type of love you've been fightin

Howard Dean - From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

William Shakespeare - “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

Tyler Perry - It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.