“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”— Andy Warhol, en.wikiquote.org
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”— Epictetus, amazon.com
“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a fini…”— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that m…”— Stephen Fry, amazon.com
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, amazon.com
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting,…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“If you want to be happy, you need to stop chasing happiness. Happiness is a byproduct of doing things that are challenging, meaningful, beautiful and worthwhile. It is wiser to spend a life chasing knowledge, or the ability to think clearly and with more dimension, than it is to just chase what “fee…”— Brianna Wiest, soulanatomy.org
“No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic? The reason we don't get talker…”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com
“The first lesson — great men are always the kindest. The second lesson was that they nearly always lead the simplest lives.”— Stefan Zweig, amazon.com
“Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. If that long. So be careful what you get good at.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”— Andrew Weil, drweil.com