"To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."
— Henry Miller

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such"
— Henry Miller

"It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss."
— Henry Miller

"Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is - in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet.
We move with eyes shut and ears stopped; we smash walls where doors are waiting to open to the touch; we grope for ladders, forgetting that we have wings; we pray as if God were deaf and blind, as if He were in a space. No wonder the angels in our midst are unrecognizable.
One day it will be pleasant to remember these things."
— Henry Miller

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Invisible threads are the strongest ties"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None)

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
— George Gordon Byron

"In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears"
— George Gordon Byron

"The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed."
— George Gordon Byron

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "
— George Gordon Byron

"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
— Emily Dickinson

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
— Bill Watterson

"“Meow” means “woof” in cat. "
— George Carlin

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
— George Burns

"I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies."
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)

"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
— Woody Allen

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?"
— Douglas Adams

"I love you and it's getting worse."
— Joseph Morris

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
— Sean O'Casey

"Just like an angry kitten that believes it’s a tiger."
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali."
— Salvador Dali

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
— Bill Watterson

"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
— Erma Bombeck

"Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly."
— Mother Teresa

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"
— Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
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— Ed Furgol

"Find a penny pick it up and all the day you'll have--ONE CENT!"
— Clare LoCoco

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. "
— Walt Whitman

"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
— Walt Whitman

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
— Walt Whitman

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
— Walt Whitman

""Be curious, not judgmental."

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— Walt Whitman

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. "
— Walt Whitman

"We were together. I forget the rest."
— Walt Whitman

"I refuse putting from me the best that I am."
— Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

"I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
— Walt Whitman

"1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

32. I think I could turn and live with animals, they're so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.
They do not make me sick discussiong their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the earth.

52. The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."
— Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
— Henry David Thoreau

"A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return."
— Henry David Thoreau

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho