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  • #1
    Graham Greene
    “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
    Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

  • #2
    Jay Kristoff
    “If you can't see your chains, what use is a key?”
    Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

  • #3
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #6
    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #7
    George R.R. Martin
    “Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #10
    Mary Oliver
    “The Journey

    One day you finally knew
    what you had to do, and began,
    though the voices around you
    kept shouting
    their bad advice --
    though the whole house
    began to tremble
    and you felt the old tug
    at your ankles.
    "Mend my life!"
    each voice cried.
    But you didn't stop.
    You knew what you had to do,
    though the wind pried
    with its stiff fingers
    at the very foundations,
    though their melancholy
    was terrible.
    It was already late
    enough, and a wild night,
    and the road full of fallen
    branches and stones.
    But little by little,
    as you left their voices behind,
    the stars began to burn
    through the sheets of clouds,
    and there was a new voice
    which you slowly
    recognized as your own,
    that kept you company
    as you strode deeper and deeper
    into the world,
    determined to do
    the only thing you could do --
    determined to save
    the only life you could save.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #11
    Joan Didion
    “People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
    Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  • #12
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “But I was young
    and didn’t know better
    and someone should have told me to capture every second
    every kiss & every night
    Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are people
    watching
    and I just want to be somewhere silent
    somewhere still
    But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonely
    and I don’t understand
    Because I was alone my whole life
    My whole life
    I was so damn lonely and I was content with that
    because I liked myself and my own company
    and I didn’t need anyone
    I thought
    But then there was you .. ...

    So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness,
    the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself,
    Because I lost myself to someone I love
    and I might get myself back one day
    but it will take time, it will take time.

    This is gonna take some time.

    I wish someone would have told me this.
    Someone should have told me this.”
    Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

  • #13
    John Green
    “There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #14
    Roy T. Bennett
    “The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
    Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
    Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears;
    What is it else? A madness most discreet,
    A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #16
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #17
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #19
    Harriet Martineau
    “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
    Harriet Martineau

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #23
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
    Jon Katz

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #28
    Lao Tzu
    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #30
    Lao Tzu
    “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
    Lao Tse



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