“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places.…”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“...what we call fate originates in ourselves in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“People have tended (with the help of conventions) to resolve everything in the direction of easiness, of the light, and on the lightest side of the light, but it is clear that we must hold to the heavy, the difficult.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging on to to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with; you’re losing familiarity.”— James Hillman, thesunmagazine.org
“Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don’t want…”— Chuck Palahniuk, goodreads.com
“it's nice to look up sometimes, it's nice to have heroes, it's nice to have somebody else carrying some of the load.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Somewhere someone thinks they love someone else exactly like I love you. Somewhere someone shakes from the ripple of a thousand butterflies inside a single stomach. Somewhere someone is packing their bags to see the world with someone else. Somewhere someone is reaching through the most terrifying f…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your h…”— Jorge Luis Borges, hellopoetry.com
“But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled — inevitably — it's the way with everything human.”— Gustave Flaubert, amazon.com
“The whole ideal of Teaism is a result of this Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life. Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“To keep the proportion of things and give place to others without losing one's own position was the secret of success in the mundane drama. We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt lets me know I was still alive.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's g…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org
“One day you will need someone like air and someone will be like the air you need.”— Colleen McCollough, amazon.com
“The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses.”— John Irving, amazon.com
“Definition is always limitation—the "fixed" and "unchangeless" are but terms expressive of a stoppage of growth.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com