michel foucault

henri j.m. nouwen [http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4837.Henri_J_M_Nouwen]

"...as if there were no greater joy than to converse with the one you love about an idea that’s impossible to prove." (Chard deNiord)

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” (Lewis Carroll)

Bob, Lost in Translation - "The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

“I can’t praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste- one who is all for show and has no resources in herself.” —Tolstoy

Audrey Hepburn - “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it in all at once.”

Ephesians 4:29 - "Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is good for building up, according to the need, that it may give grace to those who hear."

Nick Miller, “Isn’t it Pretty to Think so?” - “To not die until I’ve accomplished something worthwhile. To not hurt anyone. To have a few lovers here and there. To write about it. To travel. To buy things for my family. To stop making my mother cry. To eat good, fresh food. To cook well. To have a mentor. To learn. To have barefoot excursions and all-night conversations with pretty-eyed girls. To live in a hotel room with a huge, white bed. To have a collection of vinyl records. To have wine parties with old friends who have wondered where I’ve been. To be friends with the invisible people in the invisible towns. To have a local wine-shop owner greet me by name as I walk into his store. To watch the sun rise a few times. To watch the sun set every time. To write a perfect sentence. To read all the great books. To dream about what could have been. To see a perfect opportunity for love and walk in the other direction. To find passion. To make people think.”

Doctor Who - “Time isn't a straight line. It's all... bumpy-wumpy. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays.”

The Breakfast Club - "Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people."

Treasure Planet - "You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course. Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you get the chance to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of!"

Aldous Huxley, Island - “The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...”

Chinua Achebe - “I wouldn’t have wanted anyone to teach me how to write…I prefer to stumble on it.”

Abraham Lincoln - "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Ferris Bueller - "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to look around every once in a while, you could just miss it."

Isaac Marion - "In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses."

Aldous Huxley - “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray - "I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

Amanda Seyfried - "I have to feel good on the inside to look glamorous"

"He was a cricket in Montana, he was strawberry jam in Idaho, he was a hurricane in Florida, he was a car accident in Arizona. He gave me a country, but I wanted the world."

"The most people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep-loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

Hans F. Hansen - "People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely."

Maya Angelou - "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Curtis Sittenfeld - "Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to do: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time."

Morrissey - "Nothing else ever in your life will affect you like music did in your early teens, and it puts you on a certain course. It’s like a love affair. It widens your taste and it broadens your view on everything. It saves you."