- "I'm gonna let you in a little secret... every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it.. just let it happen." - Twin Peaks
- books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are - Milton, Areopagitica
- "clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts" - Luc de Clapiers
- A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde
- "Nostalgia is a source of poetry, and a form of fidelity. It is also a species of melancholia, which used to be thought of as an illness." - Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman.
- "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing," Frankl wrote in Man's Search for Meaning, "the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
- To be sensual is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving others to the breaking of bread. - James Baldwin
- "Don’t be a pussy. Life without risk is death. The best sex is anonymous.”
- “And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- To love at all is to be vulnerable - C.S. Lewis
- "But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses." — Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
- I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel. — Audrey Hepburn
aug 27 2012 ∞
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