“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?”— Kenneth Cain, amazon.com
“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!”— Dylan Moran, amazon.com
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”— Angela Davis, amazon.com
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Everyone knows the impulse to imagine that we were meant to be the citizens of some other place. It is from this sensation that the angels come into existence, creating in this world their ambience of pure loss.”— Stephen Mitchell, amazon.com
“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The question is whether the Ideal exists in actuality or only in our clumsy, moment-by-moment emotions— continually shifting potential; in other words 'out there' or 'in here' or both: God's voice, so to speak, or the opinion, on a particular Tuesday, of some human— or both at once. Am I leaving thi…”— John Gardner, Peter Mickelsson, amazon.com