“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't m…”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.com
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend our…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.com
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“No one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com