“It was the process, not the deed, which was interesting. It was the completing, not the completion, which was really vital.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.”— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org
“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet refers not only to the general course of life but to individual action. For no sooner do we undertake the least thing than we are pulled hither and yon, and we mix together opposing counsels as though tossed by a st…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”— Maria Mitchell, en.wikiquote.org
“I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.”— Dele Olanubi, bealightinthedark.com
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“If you’re asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you’re asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important p…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well.”— Dave Matthews, youtube.com
“Proud in all you are, showing every scar as your badge of honor. When you can’t take anymore of what they’re living for, set the world on fire.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“Stay, I said to the cut flowers. They bowed their heads lower. Stay, I said to the spider, who fled. Stay, leaf. It reddened, embarrassed for me and itself. Stay, I said to my body. It sat as a dog does, obedient for a moment, soon starting to tremble. Stay, to the earth of riverine valley meadows,…”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“It will always be this way. I stand here scared that you will disappear, scared that you will stay.”— Mark Strand, amazon.com