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“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’

Which of us was right, boss?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
― Greg Bear

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
― Vandana Shiva

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag