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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“We are the books we read and the things we love.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“There is chaos in everyone's heart.
Some just grow flowers on it while others tear it apart.”
― Fiphie, The Dust Has Grown Flowers

“I let myself feel good for no reason. I let joy happen right there and then, and it's inside me and around me, it's the lights on the road ahead, the clean black of the night, the cold air coming through the window. It's like hearing a song for the first time and being struck by it, haunted by it, wanting to hunt it down and catch it, because the song sums up something you didn't know you wanted to say, giving you chills and goose bumps. But even as you find out what it's called, and you're thinking you'll download it, you've already lost. Because the feeling was right then and there and it's already fading like a dream.

You just have to see those times for what they are: a chance to look down at your life. And when you do, you see it's a skin made up of shiny little moments.”
― Kirsty Eagar, Raw Blue

“We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“No!" Jimmy protested.”
― Ben Elton, Meltdown

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”
― Italo Calvino

“Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.”
― Italo Calvino

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.”
― Castiel