“Life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelli…”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“I think the great illusion of adulthood is that you’re going to get to this phase and be like ‘Oh, now I feel grounded and I feel like I know how to get from here to there.’ But that’s the thing with life. Maybe that’s so and then somebody gets sick and you have to deal with all the feelings that co…”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“I am drawn to stories where people can tell me what happened when everything fell apart. And not so much that their life became a total wreck, but how life unfolded and did not match up with their expectations.”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com