“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend our…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“There’s nowhere I won’t go. As long as it’s horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.”— Louis C.K, timeout.com
“No satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”— Martha Graham, amazon.com
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.com