“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want?”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“7 billion people experienced this day in a different way.”— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com
“I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on Earth who supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners?”— Earn Marks, themuse.jezebel.com
“ain’t we all just trying to be some type of sanctuary for someone? for every year we are not destroyed do they not remind us what a miracle it is to have lasted this long?”— Clint Smith, beltwaypoetry.com
“You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“The minute I stopped pretending to know how to live was the minute my life began to make more sense.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“Outside the window Sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I’m human.”— Wang Xiaoni, theguardian.com
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was o…”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com