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  • #1
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #5
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #6
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
    Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
    This is all practice.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #7
    Jon Krakauer
    “make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #8
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #9
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #11
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #12
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #13
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #14
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #15
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism

  • #16
    Julia Cameron
    “Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if...
    If we had known who we really were.”
    Julia Cameron

  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #18
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “The stars are brilliant at this time of night
    and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break
    for darling, the times are quite glorious.

    I left him by the water’s edge,
    still waving long after the ship was gone
    and if someone would have screamed my name I wouldn’t have heard for I’ve said goodbye so many times in my short life that farewells are a muscular task and I’ve taught them well.
    There’s a place by the side of the railway near the lake where I grew up and I used to go there to burry things and start anew.
    I used to go there to say goodbye.
    I was young and did not know many people but I had hidden things inside that I never dared to show and in silence I tried to kill them,
    one way or the other,
    leaving sin on my body
    scrubbing tears off with salt
    and I built my rituals in farewells.
    Endings I still cling to.

    So I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

    He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head
    and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one
    for I have used them myself and there is no coming back.
    Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.

    I turned away from the ocean
    as not to fall for its plea
    for it used to seduce and consume me
    and there was this one night
    a few years back and I was not yet accustomed to farewells
    and just like now I stood waving long after the ship was gone.
    But I was younger then and easily fooled
    and the ocean was deep and dark and blue
    and I took my shoes off to let the water freeze my bones.
    I waded until I could no longer walk and it was too cold to swim but still I kept on walking at the bottom of the sea for I could not tell the difference between the ocean and the lack of someone I loved and I had not yet learned how the task of moving on is as necessary as survival.

    Then days passed by and I spent them with my work
    and now I’m writing letters I will never dare to send.
    But there is this one day every year or so
    when the burden gets too heavy
    and I collect my belongings I no longer need
    and make my way to the ocean to burn and drown and start anew
    and it is quite wonderful, setting fire to my chains and flames on written words
    and I stand there, starring deep into the heat until they’re all gone.
    Nothing left to hold me back.

    You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss
    like chains wrapped around my veins,
    and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
    it’s my chains going up in flames.

    The time of moon i quite glorious.
    We could have been so glorious.”
    Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
    Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
    Stephen King, Misery

  • #20
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
    P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally

  • #21
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy.  It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back.  Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy.  And you cannot make them so.”
    Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

  • #22
    William  James
    “There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
    William James

  • #23
    Martha Washington
    “I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.”
    Martha Washington

  • #24
    Sylvia Plath
    “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

  • #28
    “If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
    Nayyirah Waheed

  • #29
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

    "Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #30
    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War



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