“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then....I contradict myself; I am large....I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“How peaceful life would be without love. How safe. How tranquil. And how very dull.”— Umberto Eco, amazon.com
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak, I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences, not the outcomes.”— Kathryn Vance-Perez, amazon.com
“I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?”— Sholem Aleichem, goodreads.com
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com