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“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
― Anita Roddick

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”
― Alan Watts

“The gull sees farthest who flies highest”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“labdien,
es tikai gribēju pierakstīt
acu krāsu
un matu garumu
divus gadus jau nevaru saprast
kā man uzsākt ar tevi sarunu”
― Ilmārs Šlāpins, Karmabandha

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“I just want to not be me.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

- Karla”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?"
"Comprehension.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
― Anne Lamott

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”
― Gregory David Roberts

“...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“..
es nojukšu
kā nojūk vilcieni no sliedēm
es sajukšu
kā sajūk nakts ar priedēm
es sajukšu
kā zaglis sajūk zelta vārtos
neviens vairs mani
nesavāks un nesakārtos
..”
― Imants Ziedonis

“Ir jāiet.”
― Mārtiņš Zvīdriņš, #Fudzi161km

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“es par visu vairāk esmu laimīgs
kad saule riet
visās pārējās diennakts stundās
dzērienu veikalus neveriet ciet”
― Ilmārs Šlāpins, Karmabandha

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Isn’t that we all crave? To feel alive? What we think of when we chase happiness is actually not happiness at all. We crave aliveness. We crave the feeling of being completely within our lives. We crave the heart-stopping surprise moments that we never expected. We crave the opportunity to go down a path that leads us to something more beautiful than we ever imagined. This is what we truly desire. And, it’s not a straight line there.”
― Jamie Varon, Capital T Truth: Little Hits from the Universe

“ja tikai pietiktu laika, ja mēs būtu mūžīgi, ikviens no mums - tad katrs izdarītu pilnīgi visu, arī to, ko nedarītu nekad. Un varbūt tāpēc mums dots tik maz laika dzīvot.”
― Andra Neiburga, Stum Stum