“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”— Stella Adler, amazon.com
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”— David Starr Jordan, amazon.com
“What's left undone today, is still not done tomorrow; to every day there is a use and purpose; let Resoluteness promptly seize the forelock of the Possible, and then, reluctant to let go again, she's forced to carry on and be productive.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“'How wonderful to be alive,' he thought. 'But why does it always hurt?'”— Boris Pasternak, 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
“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”— Laura Hillenbrand, amazon.com
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”— Marie Lu, amazon.com
“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and pa…”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“I know it’s not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you’re not the only one with troubles.”— Laini Taylor, amazon.com
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com