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    Paul Auster
    “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
    Paul Auster

  • #2
    Paul Auster
    “I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
    Paul Auster, Moon Palace
    tags: love

  • #3
    Paul Auster
    “When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #4
    Paul Auster
    “The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.”
    Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

  • #5
    Paul Auster
    “We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since. ”
    Paul Auster, Man in the Dark

  • #6
    Paul Auster
    “It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
    Paul Auster

  • #7
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  • #8
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  • #9
    Paul Auster
    “You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”
    Paul Auster

  • #10
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  • #11
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #12
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  • #13
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

  • #14
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Reach what you cannot”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

  • #15
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “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

  • #16
    Paul Auster
    “Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.”
    Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

  • #17
    Paul Auster
    “...once you fell in love with her, you
    loved her until the day you died.”
    Paul Auster, Timbuktu

  • #18
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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

  • #19
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #20
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #24
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #25
    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

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #29
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #30
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison



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