Optional Quotes

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.

In life, we can't always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.