“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to liv…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“What makes people difficult and dooms relationships is almost never the people involved. It’s what we are trying to do with them. Inviting someone to marry you is really not a very kind thing to do to someone you love, because it’s going to drag the beloved into a range of really rather unpleasant a…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“In Haruki Murakami’s outstanding 1987 novel, Norwegian Wood, we are taken through every nuance in the emotions of unrequited or doomed love. What is ignored, as it almost always is in art, is the business of sharing a life with someone who isn’t married to someone else, distant, dying or out of reac…”— Alain de Botton, ft.com
“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”— Kait Rokowski, goodreads.com
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call redemption!”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive;”— Susanne Langer, amazon.com