“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”— Walt Disney, amazon.com
“Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”— David Wojnarowicz, amazon.com
“While washing dishes, you might be thinking about the tea you’re going to drink afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes. When you are washing the…”— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com
“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.”— Ram Dass, fyp-psychology.com
“Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know.”— Emery Lord, amazon.com
“Everything is dangerous… If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living...”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”— Barry H. Gillespie, goodreads.com
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“Time weighs down on you like an old ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com