“The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.”— Claude Monet, amazon.com
“So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”— Sheryl Sandberg, amazon.com
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”— Plato, amazon.com
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“If I could, I would apologize to the sky and my room ceiling for all of the nights I’ve awkwardly stared at them remembering things I should have forgotten.”— Maxwell Diawuoh, maxwelldpoetry.tumblr.com
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”— Jiddu Krishnamurti, amazon.com
“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”— Joseph Campbell, gointothestory.blcklst.com
“This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing.”— Kenneth Grahame, amazon.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”— H.G. Wells, amazon.com
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”— Franz Kafka, kafka-online.info