“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see.”— Andre Dubus, amazon.com
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”— Azar Nafisi, amazon.com
“The sea and the sky- how strange that somewhere they can exist apart.”— Mikhail Shishkin, amazon.com
“It’s not your life, it’s life. Life is bigger than you. Life isn’t something that you possess, it’s something that you take part in and you witness.”— Louis C.K., imdb.com
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”— David Starr Jordan, amazon.com
“If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.”— Paul Bowles, amazon.com
“Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”— Mary Ellen Mark, maryellenmark.com