- "The more I see the less I know for sure." - John Lennon
- "Love truth, but pardon error." - Voltaire
- "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings
- "But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile." - Nikola Tesla
- "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." - E. M. Forster
- "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." - The Buddha
- "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow..." - Matthew 6:28
- "Even if it was relatively insignificant, it was something, and I needed to do something, like sharks, who die if they don't swim, which I know about." - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "I'm thinking of a loaf of black bread that I left out one night, the next morning I saw the outline of the most that had eaten through it, I cut the loaf into slices and saw the mouse at each moment..." - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry." - J.D. Salinger
- "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- "Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- "All time is time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- "The entire sum or existence of our lives is the magic of being needed by just one other person." - A fortune cookie
- "Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again." - Woody Allen
- "Every human being is an endomorphic image of the mind of God." - Chris Langan
- "These vessels of meat, these prisons of flesh, they have windows." - Chris Langan
- "I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other." - Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions." - Rainer Maria Rilke
- "Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling the potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
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