- "L'observation du cerveau nous apprend qu'en un sens nous ne sommes que de la viande ; et que, dans un autre, nous ne sommes que de la fiction." Paul Broks, Into the silent land
- "It's not where you go. It's how you get there." My own private Idaho
- "People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." Jim Morrisson
- "People will stare. Make it worth their while." (please remind me who said this!)
- "The fears that live inside of us, whatever they are, and however they manifest, prevent us from living our highest potential, as individuals, and as contributors to the human race. If we consciously and vigilently transmute those fears through compassion for others, and for ourselves, we will know what it is to live a peaceful existence on this planet." Gillian Anderson
- "In this book, his father had written as an inscription and directive, write what you want. Everyday, or as often as you can, write what you want. That way, whenever you're confused or rudderless, you can look to this book, and be reminded where you want to go and what you're looking for ... This journal was for positive wants, not negative wants. When you wanted something negative, it didn't count, he said. A want should be positive, his father had said. A want should improve your life while improving the world, even if just a little bit." Dave Eggers, The wild things
- "The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. Emil Ludwig
- "You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That's all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death." Anaïs Nin
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