“Life was like a prism; what you saw depended on how you turned the glass.”— Jonathan Kellerman, amazon.com
“When baffled in one direction a man of energy will not despair, but will find another way to his object.”— Chinese Proverb, books.google.com.ph
“So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.”— Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, amazon.com
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”— Sigmund Freud, 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
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”— Bill Watterson, amazon.com
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“I don’t know if it’s ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there’s a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.”— Jessica Capshaw, tvline.com
“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”— Emil Nolde, google.com
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I should feel the air move against me and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual – we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.”— D. H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“Some people call me obsessive or driven or lucky or whatever. I’m all of those things. Shouldn’t we all be?”— Kelly Slater, worldsurfleague.com