“Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.”— John Eldredge, amazon.com
“Getting the fuck over it does not mean you ignore your feelings. They are not the same thing. Getting the fuck over it means I see you, emotion that could have the power to devastate me and paralyze me for the day, or week, or year. And I am choosing to put my energy elsewhere. It does not mean you…”— Brianna Wiest, soulanatomy.org
“When we introduce ourselves to new people, we shouldn't be saying "to earn money I do this". Instead, we have to present ourselves as musicians, photographers, painters, models and muses, anything we are good at. What we do to earn money is not of the others' goddamn business, we are not our job, an…”— Nina Sever, ninasever.tumblr.com
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”— Tove Jansson, moomin.com
“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”— J. D. Salinger, genius.com
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“Don’t underestimate the power of another human being to lift you to the highest heaven, or cast you to the lowest hell.”— Bruce Adler, facebook.com
“How do you know the difference between acknowledging pain and wallowing in it? There's no precise test. But if talking about or "explaining" or "understanding" your pain has become an excuse you use to avoid doing what you need to do, then you are probably wallowing.”— Eric Greitens, amazon.com
“Standing at sea level, an ax in your hand feels like a feather. At twelve thousand feet, hours from the summit, an extra pound in your pack feels like an anvil. In the same way, words have value.”— Eric Greitens, amazon.com
“A masterful warrior carries everything she needs and no more, just as a masterful painter uses all of the paint that she needs and no more, and a master chef uses all of the ingredients that she needs and no more. In the same way, a masterful philosopher will use all of the words that she needs and…”— Eric Greitens, amazon.com
“Culture was originally a word for the tilling and tending of the land. Later, people made an analogy and suggested that you could cultivate yourself. So culture also came to mean the things that you could see, listen to, read, learn, try and practice in order to make yourself better and to live a fu…”— Eric Greitens, amazon.com
“Yet even after being so close to misery in so many different places, on some level I still thought of most people's struggles as man against the world, rather than man against the self. But when you're in bed and not tired and it's bright outside and you can't seem to get your feet on the floor, you…”— Eric Greitens, amazon.com
“When we're struggling, we don't need a book in our hands. We need the right words in our minds. When things are tough, a mantra does more good than a manifesto.”— Eric Greitens, amazon.com
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Falling in love for us meant falling into talk. We talked about our memories, broken bones, broken hearts and one broken marriage. We talked about our mothers, one Jewish and one Italian, constantly cooking and feeding. We talked about our fathers, neither of whom cooked or fed. We talked about frie…”— Molly Pascal, nytimes.com
“Maybe the problem is not that we don’t have enough time but that we waste the time we have. Seneca famously thought this. (‘It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.’) Most of us seem unable to refrain from ‘wasting’ time. It is the rare person indeed who can be max…”— Rivka Weinberg, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com