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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    Paul Valéry
    “Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
    Paul Valery

  • #5
    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    Jonathan Franzen

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski, Post Office

  • #10
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #11
    David Foster Wallace
    “Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    Anais Nin

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

  • #14
    “‎Most of the times,
    we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.”
    Dionisis Agelakis

  • #15
    T.S. Eliot
    “I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
    Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
    When the wind blows the water white and black.

    We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
    By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
    Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  • #16
    Keira D. Skye
    “The stars twinkled above him brilliantly, representing all of the beautiful laws of the universe.”
    Keira D. Skye

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #21
    Herta Müller
    “When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”
    Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums

  • #22
    Milan Kundera
    “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #23
    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #24
    Milan Kundera
    “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #25
    Milan Kundera
    “There is no perfection only life”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #26
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #27
    Adam Phillips
    “The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”
    Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

  • #28
    Adam Phillips
    “To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.”
    Adam Phillips, Equals

  • #29
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy
    of being No-one's sleep under so many
    lids.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #30
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    Anne Bronte



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