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“Life is a transition.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Life on earth is a transition.
Death is final rest of every man.
What legacy do you wish to live?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“I’m always impressed by people who can speak another language, two people talking what sounds like utter gibberish, yet making complete sense to each other never fails to entertain.”
― Tom Reynolds, Blood, Sweat and Tea

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“تو ماهی و من ماهی این برکه ی کاشی
اندوه بزرگی ست زمانی که نباشی

آه از نفس پاک تو و صبح نشابور
از چشم تو و حجره ی فیروزه تراشی

پلکی بزن ای مخزن اسرار که هر بار
فیروزه و الماس به آفاق بپاشی

ای باد سبک سار مرا بگذر و بگذار
هشدار که آرامش ما را نخراشی

هرگز به تو دستم نرسد ماه بلندم
اندوه بزرگی ست چه باشی، چه نباشی”
― علیرضا بدیع

“I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.”
― Bruce Mau

“When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.”
― Bruce Mau

“Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”
― Fritz Perls

“Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.”
― Fritz Perls

“Learning is the discovery that something is possible”
― Fritz Perls

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― Karl Marx

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language.  English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache.  It has all grown one way.  The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.  There is nothing ready made for him.  He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.  Probably it will be something laughable.”
― Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics

“The world and I are within one another.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite