• Looking for Alaska

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”

• Jeremy Glass

“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.”

• George R.R Martin

"We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

• Lester Bangs

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone when you are uncool."

• Maya Angelou

“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

• Former RISD President John Maeda once explained, as quoted by Debbie Millman:

“The computer will do anything within its abilities. But it will do nothing, unless commanded to do so.”

• Benjamin Franklin

That knowing, is better than wondering. That waking, is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake, beats the hell out of never trying.

• N.A.

Don't waste your time ruminating over what you did wrong or what you can do to get a person to act as you want him or her to act. That is out of your control. All you can control is the amount of bullsh*t you accept in your life and how you react to it.

• Albert Einstein observed,

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

• In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl wrote:

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

• On his 85th birthday, the Pulitzer Prize winner writer Carl Sandburg was recounted as having said,

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful, lest you let other people spend it for you.

• Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. - Octavio Paz, Mexico, Nobel Laureate in Literature