“This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then....I contradict myself; I am large....I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“How peaceful life would be without love. How safe. How tranquil. And how very dull.”— Umberto Eco, amazon.com
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”— Vladimir Nabokov, lib.ru
“We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month, or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you v…”— Neil Strauss, amazon.com
“I assure you, I am not put together at all. Nor am I broken. I am recovering - finding the beautiful in the ugly and stitching it into my life.”— Rachel Wolchin, twitter.com
“He who steals my purse steals my right to live, For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life”— Jack London, amazon.com
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well”— Jack London, amazon.com
“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life”— Jack London, amazon.com