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“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“The city is a means to a way of life. It can be a reflection of all our best selves. It can be whatever we want it to be. It can change, and change dramatically.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

“Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything ...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“No you don't. You just don't know. You're too young, too young to know what this is, what I'm trying to give you. But, when you're older, you'll remember and you'll want to come back here - long after your little cart is broken.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.”
― Aristotle, Rhetoric

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“When I listened to her, I understood: You have to hold out to see how your life unfolds, because it is most likely beyond what you can imagine. It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do. I had to believe her, because she was living proof. Then she said, Good and bad things come from the universe holding hands. Wait for the good to come.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“I know better than to take life directions from someone without a moral compass.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“No matter where you are, home or the strangest of places, everyone wants to look like they know where they’re going.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story

“Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Sometimes it takes an entire generation to see the life lost between freeway off-ramps.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

“Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said.
"What?"
"I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories