“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”— Louis CK, books.google.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“Ultimately, here is the choice we face: we can either make the solution to the climate crisis the central organizing principle of global civilization— or the hostile conditions we are creating will grow rapidly worse, thickening the smothering blanket of global warming pollution surrounding our plan…”— Al Gore, amazon.com
“Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell. We passed the bottle back and forth as I waited for the cab.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Sensitive souls don’t have it easy in this cruel world. They feel like their souls are getting trampled on in so many ways. That’s why you see their eyes light up when they can caress a face or an animal, or breathe in the scent of a flower.”— Sereno Sky, amazon.com
“I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willlingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stired it up well, then he spreads…”— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com
“Boxing was only for self gain. Just beating up a brother, or someone else's brother for money. But now I am getting more pleasure out of lecturing at a Muslim mosque. I enjoy this much better than boxing.”— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com
“All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. Every step of the way I believe that God has been with me. And, more than ever, I know that he is with me now. I have learned to l…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali, newspapers.com
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali, en.wikipedia.org
“Because the Warrior of the Light believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Only then did I realize that during the three weeks that had passed between taking the taxi to Lenox Hill, on the fourteenth of June, and receiving the results of the full-body PET scan, on the eighth of July, I had allowed this year’s most deeply blue nights to come and go without my notice. What d…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com