“You cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in…”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”— Alan Watts, Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“She sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”— John Green, amazon.com
“While we as empathic beings want to feel compassion for those in pain, that does not change the reality that forgiving an abuser to the extent of remaining with them, excusing the abuse, minimizing and denying it only perpetuates the abuse cycle and leads to further, sometimes even lethal, harm to t…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“You may be one of those individuals who find it hard to accept the notion that there really are people as cunning, devious, and ruthless as your gut tells you the manipulator in your life is. That is, you may even be prone to engage in ‘neurotic’ denial. If you are, even when you’re confronted with…”— George K. Simon, George K. Simon Ph.D., amazon.com
“Everything is conditional. We just don't know what the conditions are.”— Doris Egan, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com
“Love and happiness are nothing but distractions.”— John C. Kelley, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy moisture moistened bodies and clothing, and people fanned and wiped at sweating faces trying to survive... as Harry and Marion peacefully passed the day sleeping in each others arms oblivious to the…”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com