“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what…”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“My dear, It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe, For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Philosophy becomes tortured thinking. Thinking that devours itself—and continues intact and even flourishes, in spite (or perhaps because) of these repeated acts of self-cannibalism.”— Susan Sontag, emcioranbr.org