“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“Look, let’s give it up. Let’s just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let’s drive down and look at the ocean. It’s only 45 minutes. Let’s play games in the arcades. Let’s go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let’s have friends. Let’s laugh. This kind of life l…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“...you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt... we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”— Zadie Smith, faculty.sunydutchess.edu
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo, goodreads.com
“I couldn’t live where there were no trees — something vital in me would starve.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I wasn’t lost, or frozen, or gone… I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.”— Alice Sebold, amazon.com
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”— Og Mandino, amazon.com