- "Every moment of one's existence is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." - Norman Mailer
- “Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.” - Chauncey Depew
- "Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
- "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. " - Confucius
- "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way." - Victor Frankl
- "The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it." -Bhagavad Gita
- "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers
- You have the power to act only--you do not have the power to influence the result--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the result--without succumbing to inaction. -Bhagavad Gita
- "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
- "The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying." -Ken Follett
- "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true." - John Steinbeck
- "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller
- "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." - Cynthia Nelms
- "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." - Albert Camus
- "I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
- "We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life." - the 14th Dalai Lama
- "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." - H. L. Mencken
- "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
- "Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature." - Gao Xingjian
- "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." — Albert Einstein
- "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - cicero
- It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius
- The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practising an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. — Kurt Vonnegut
- Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity." - Herman Melville
- “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself I am large, I contain multitudes” — Walt Whitman
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