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#Wilfred Opening Quotes

##Season 1 ###Episode 1

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

  • Mark Twain

###Episode 2

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

  • Thomas Fuller

###Episode 3

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

  • Mahatma Ghandi

###Episode 4

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

  • George Orwell

###Episode 5

Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.

  • Steven H. Coogler

###Episode 6

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

  • Proverb

###Episode 7

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  • Steven H. Coogler

###Episode 8

Anger as soon as fed is dead -- tis starving makes it fat.

  • Emily Dickinson

###Episode 9

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

  • Anne McCaffrey

###Episode 10

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  • Carlos Salinas de Gortari

###Episode 11

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

  • George C. Lichtenberg

###Episode 12

Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

  • Michael Novak

###Episode 13

The value of identity is that so often with it comes purpose.

  • Richard R. Grant

##Season 2

###Episode 1

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  • Thomas Edison

###Episode 2

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

  • Herman Hesse

###Episode 3

Let not a man guard his dignity but let his dignity guard him.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

###Episode 4

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

  • Erma Bombeck

###Episode 5

Be here now.

  • Ram Dass

###Episode 6

The master understands that the universe is forever out of control.

  • Lao Tzu

###Episode 7

Our biggest problems arise from the avoidance of smaller ones.

  • Jeremy Caulfield

###Episode 8

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  • James A. Garfield

###Episode 9

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change is service to a fellow human being.

  • Lee Iacocca

###Episode 10

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

  • Mother Teresa

###Episode 11

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers.

  • Edward Hodnett

###Episode 12

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  • Malachy McCourt

###Episode 13

If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort should we find.

  • John Churton Collins

##Season 3

###Episode 1

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

  • David Levithan

###Episode 2

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

  • Hippocrates

###Episode 3

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

  • Robert Burns

###Episode 4

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

  • Eiji Yoshikawa

###Episode 5

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

  • A.J. Jacobs

###Episode 6

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

  • Vanna Bonta

###Episode 7

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

  • Henri Poincaré

###Episode 8

How weird was it to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

  • Suzanne Vega

###Episode 9

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

  • Christopher Hitchens

###Episode 10

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way to come back a short distance correctly.

  • Edward Albee

###Episode 11

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

  • Leonard Sweet

###Episode 12

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business.

  • John Green

###Episode 13

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  • Arthur Miller

##Season 4

###Episode 1

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  • Aldous Huxley

###Episode 2

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

###Episode 3

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

  • G.K. Chesterton

###Episode 4

In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.

  • Jeffery Fry

###Episode 5

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

###Episode 6

Truth is outside of all patterns.

  • Bruce Lee

###Episode 7

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

  • Franz Kafka

###Episode 8

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

  • Benjamin Franklin

###Episode 9

Resistance is useless.

Dr. Who

###Episode 10

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  • Leo Tolstoy
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