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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Evde de karnımız doymuyor değildi ama büyükannem, pişirdiği ucuz et yemeklerinin daha ilk lokmasını ağzımıza götürürken, "Umarım beğenirsiniz, şunun yarım kilosuna tam kırk bir sent verdim," deme alışkanlığına sahipti, ben de o zaman bir pazar günü rostosu yerine madeni paraları yiyormuşum duygusuna kapılırdım.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Beauty in its best form is kindness, the most valuable currency in the world.”
― Rebecca McNutt, Bittersweet Symphony

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“He dreamed in ticker tape and calliope colors.”
― Bruce Olds, Bucking the Tiger

“Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.”
― Florence King, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye

“As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Like all romantics, I wanted the kind of love that didn't exist in this world, at least not in my time. It had once upon a time, but it had faded like the final scene of a black and white movie long ago, never to return.”
― Bobby Underwood, Night Run

“She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“One's ego is the enemy of objectivity.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“So I volunteered for the night run, sleeping by day like a vampire to avoid those reasonably happy people who had settled for less than heaven. I'd had the door shut on those soft, sensuous pearly gates one too many times, left to stand sheepishly on my little tarnished cloud as I watched someone else enter paradise with the one I worshipped. The heart can only take so much before it begins to hide in shame at its own foolishness.”
― Bobby Underwood, Night Run

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“نه با کسی بحث کن، نه از کسی انتقاد کن.
هرکی هرچی گفت بگو حق با شماست و خودت را خلاص کن.
آدم‌ها عقیده‌ات را که می‌پرسند نظرت را نمی‌خواهند.
می‌خواهند با عقیده‌ی خودشان موافقت کنی.
بحث کردن با آدمها بی‌فایده است.”
― زویا پیرزاد, چراغ‌ها را من خاموش می‌کنم