“But that’s love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”— The Dalai Lama, amazon.com
“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”— Abraham Maslow, goodreads.com
“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood…”— Robert E. Howard, amazon.com
“I’m not a complicated girl, she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it.”— Homer, amazon.com
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”— Robert Frost, en.wikisource.org
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”— Greta Garbo, goodreads.com