“But if you look at it like that, we're all pretty much empty, don't you think? You eat, take a dump, do your crummy job for your lousy pay, and get laid occasionally, if you're lucky . . . Still you know, interesting things do happen in life.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Face it, I remind myself—there're tons of things you don't have a clue about.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I've been down some bad and fucked up roads in my life. I've felt pretty much like I was at the end. I don't know why or how or what got me past that, and I still struggle with depression and anxiety.”— Jason Diamond, twitter.com
“I have no idea how I made it through this week, but I did somehow - and that’s something.”— Lisa Lucas, twitter.com
“I attach no importance to the mere appurtenances of life — the baggage that accompanies one on that brief journey. Life itself is quite enough for me.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“If you do not love life itself, you love the beautiful things of life, do you not?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.”— Harry Stack Sullivan, facebook.com
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“So many people hit the White House with their Dictaphone running. I never even kept a journal. I thought, ‘I want to live my life, not record it.’”— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, nunncenter.org
“So, love somebody until you don't love them anymore. Do a job until you don’t love it. Quit shit. Start shit. Walk away. Go find what gives you relentless joy, and if that thing changes — go find what else does.”— Janne Robinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.”— Jack Kornfield, goodreads.com