Civilization, and Misery Loves Company

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
~ Advice

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
~ Will Durant

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~ Henry David Thoreau

UPDATE:

Friendship - the muse of inspiration

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
~ Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher,1817-1862)

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
~ Lord Chesterfield (British Statesman, Diplomat and Wit, 1694-1773)

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
~ Western Union internal memo 1876

Seekers

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
~ Henry David Thoreau

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore