“Genius is independent of money but the world will always destroy it if it can.”— Cyril Connolly, amazon.com
“The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”— William Blake, amazon.com
“Wisdom produces happiness, not in the way that medical science produces health, but in the way that health produces health.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“The boaster seems to claim qualities to win reputation, though he either lacks them altogether or has less than he claims. The self-deprecator, by contrast, seems to disavow or to belittle his actual qualities. The intermediate person is straightforward, and therefore truthful in what he says and do…”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“Happiness is not a state. For if it were, someone might have it and yet be asleep for his whole life, living the life of a plan or suffer the greatest misfortunes. We count happiness as an activity rather than a state.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“Virtues...we acquire just as we acquire craft, by having first activated them. For we learn a craft by producing the same product we must produce when we have learned it; we become builders, for instance, by building and we become harpists by playing the harp. Similarly, then, we become just by doin…”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“Life is a school in which we live all our days and by 45 we should know that happiness does not come from the seeking, that it is never our by right, but that we earn it through giving of ourselves.”— Eleanor Roosevelt, amazon.com
“Ignoring is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death.”— Benjamin Rush, amazon.com
“Did we not know that the human mind seldom arrives at truth upon any subject till it has first reached the extremity of error.”— Benjamin Rush, amazon.com
“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“I wonder if the way the rain feels against my skin is the same way it feels against yours. If the words of my favorite song remind you of the way it felt when he let you go after promising he never would, or when the warm August air made you crazy for a boy who was leaving in September.”— Stephanie Walker, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“We have that feeling that life could have been other, different, better in a way impossible to articulate, yet we sense there was another road we missed.”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“The minute I stopped pretending to know how to live was the minute my life began to make more sense.”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“O Gilgamesh, where are you wandering? The life you seek you never will find.”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“Going at the force he was the vanguard, going at the rear, one his comrades could trust!”— Anonymous, amazon.com