“But it was not sudden — I did not wake up one morning and find that chemistry was dead for me; it was gradual, it stole upon me bit by bit. it happened at first, I think, without my even realizing it.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.”— Adam Savage, techland.time.com
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without beco…”— Osho, goodreads.com
“Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart. But have you indeed? What is your heart made of? Is there no such principle as Compassion there? Do you never feel another's pain? Have you no Sympathy? No sense of human woe? No pity for the miserable? When you saw the flowing eyes, the heaving br…”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.”— Reyna Biddy, twitter.com
“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”— Alan Shepard, goodreads.com
“There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.”— Richelle Mead, amazon.com
“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”— Harun Yahya, goodreads.com
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it.”— Homer, amazon.com
“If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.”— Cassandra Clare, goodreads.com