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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.”
― Joey Adams

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”
― Jenny Holzer

“It's better to burn out than it is to rust.”
― Neil Young

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.”
― Yogi Berra

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Sissy: You really don't believe in political solutions do you?

The Chink: I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Sissy: Well, then, what are the philosophical solutions?

The Chink: Ha ha ho ho and hee hee. That's for you to find out. I'll say this much and no more: there's got to be poetry. And magic. At every level. If civilization is ever going to be anything but a grandiose pratfall, anything more than a can of deodorizer in the shithouse of existence, then statesmen are going to have to concern themselves with magic and poetry. Bankers are going to have to concern themselves with magic and poetry. Time magazine is going to have to write about magic and poetry. Factory workers and housewives are going to have to get their lives entangled in magic and poetry.

Sissy: Do you think such a thing can ever happen?

The Chink: If you understood poetry and magic, you'd know that it doesn't matter.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I knew that I was dying.
Something in me said,
Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept.
Then something else in me said, no,
save the tiniest bit.
It needn't be much, just a spark.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire.
Just a spark.
Save it.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“there is peaceful.
there is wild.
i am both at the same time.”
― nayyirah waheed, Nejma

“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty

“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”
― Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

“My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.”
― Jane Birkin

“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”
― Nikita Gill

“Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there is a light shinning somewhere nearby.”
― Renkel Ruth E

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wandering

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
― Nietzsche