“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”— Walt Disney, amazon.com
“Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”— David Wojnarowicz, amazon.com
“A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.”— Chuck Close, esquire.com
“The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.”— Jean Klein, amazon.com
“While washing dishes, you might be thinking about the tea you’re going to drink afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes. When you are washing the…”— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com
“Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.”— Kate Morton, amazon.com
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”— Elie Wiesel, en.wikiquote.org
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, goodreads.com
“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com