“One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment.”— Edward Weston, amazon.com
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I liked the idea—that we left pieces of ourselves everywhere we went, coloring all our important places.”— Kirsten Hubbard, amazon.com
“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”— Lauren Kate, amazon.com
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“She has something of her very own, something suffered, accomplished, perfected.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, i…”— Ralph Marston, goodreads.com
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”— Dorothy Seiberling, amazon.com
“Love doesn’t necessarily care whether you like it. It can bring you enormous grief. But you would never trade it for any other experience.”— Piers Anthony, amazon.com
“I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re going to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“I’m always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed…to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com