“the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Is it better to out – monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”— Freidrich Nietzsche, alien-bambi.tumblr.com
“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Flynt’s revenge through language conceived more than two decades earlier would seem to remain in force, thereby suggesting that absence of meaning may also point the way to revolt.”— Robert C. Morgan, whitehotmagazine.com
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“WE need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“We all tend to filter the world around us through what we know. So try and go beyond what you already know, fill your mind with the new, nourish it with different interests, open it to the extraordinary.Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.”— Sergio Marchionne, graduationwisdom.com
“We’ve been taught a woman’s body will cause men to sin. We’re told that if a woman shows too much of her body men will do stupid things. Let’s be clear: a woman’s body is not dangerous to you. Her body will not cause you harm. It will not make you do stupid things. If you do stupid things it is beca…”— Nate Pyle, huffingtonpost.com
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com