“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”— Donna Tartt, Boris Pavlikovsky, amazon.com
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial. That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality — your soul, if you will — is as bright and shining as any that has ever been. Bright as Shakespeare’s, bright as Gandh…”— George Saunders, medium.com
“Who, in your life, do you remember most fondly, with the most undeniable feelings of warmth? Those who were kindest to you, I bet.”— George Saunders, medium.com
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.”— George Saunders, medium.com
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don’t live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if— especially if— it’s uncomfortable. Be part of what’s going on around you. Feast on it, adjust for it. There’s no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“The only man who has a 'vocation' for politics is one who is certain that his spirit will not be broken if the world, when looked at from his point of view, proves too stupid or base to accept what he wishes to offer it, and who, when faced with all that obduracy, can still say 'Nevertheless!' despi…”— Max Weber, amazon.com