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- "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke
- "The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time." - Haruki Murakami
- "I inhabited a territory of loneliness which I think resembles that place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return living to the world bring inevitably a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession; at times I think it must be the best view in the world, ranging even farther than the view from the mountains of love, equal in its rapture and chilling exposure, there in the neighborhood of the ancient gods and goddesses." - Janet Frame
- "Normality is a paved road. It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." - Vincent Van Gogh
- "Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be." - Matt Berninger
- "I'm not sure what I'll do, but - well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale." - F. S. Fitzgerald
- "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against play-it-savers, the creatures of comfortable, the slavers of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton
- "I neither look forward, where there is doubt, nor backwards where there is regret; I look inward and ask myself not if there is anything out in the world that I want and had better grab quickly before nightfall, but whether there is anything inside me that I have not yet unpacked. I want to be certain that before I fold my hands and step into my coffin what little I can do and say and be is completed." - Quentin Crisp
- “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. 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 now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
- "The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so." - Victor Hugo
- "Only the exhaustive can be truly interesting." - Thomas Mann
- "A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon." ― Andrea Gibson
- "You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go." - "The curious case of Benjamin Button"
- "For what it's worth: I hope you live a life you are proud of. And if you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." - F.S. Fitzgerald
- "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired." - F.S. Fitzgerald
- "John: Why didn't God make me Elvis Presley? Julia: Because he was saving you to be John Lennon." - "Nowhere boy."
- "I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning, learning is beautiful." - Natalie Portman
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost
- "The people I deal with today will be meddling, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of divine." - Marcus Aurelius
- "All you need is love." - The Beatles
- "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
- "I never change, I simply become more myself." - Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
- "Dance is music made visible."
- “I just want to drift. I’m just going to be a drifter… Maybe I’ll work in a tea shop. Or live in Amsterdam. Or be a nanny. Life experience only helps us as actors. I need new experiences to draw upon.” - Shailene Woodley
- "Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live."
- "Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." - J.M. Barrie
- "To die would be an awfully big adventure." - J.M. Barrie
- "To live will be an awfully big adventure." - J.M. Barrie
- "Listening to music and daydreaming are experiences as valid as the real ones most of us miss out on." - Tavi Gevinson
- "Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be." - Miguel de Cervantes
- "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl
- "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Henry David Thoreau
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." - C.S. Lewis
- "You think relationships are difficult? Try friendships. Try courting someone in order to convince them to join you in some nameless, shapeless platonic complication — forever. Convince an adult stranger that you are worth a healthy slice of their limited time and energy without the prize of sex or romance." - Laura Jayne Martin
- "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
- "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
- "There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands." - Oscar Wilde
- "I’m going to read what I want, listen to what I want and watch French films and I’m going to talk to people who know lots about lots." - An Education
- "Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today." - Andrew Carnegie
- "…the power of music, the stimulus of sight, the effect on us of the shape of the trees or the play of colour, the emotions bred in us by crowds, the obscure terrors and hatreds which come so irrationally in certain places or from certain people, the delight of movement, the intoxication of wine. Every moment is the centre and meeting-place of an extraordinary number of perceptions which have not yet been expressed. Life is always and inevitably much richer than we who try to express it.” - Virginia Woolf
- "I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." - Emily Bronte
- "My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see." - Andre Dubus
- "I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself." - Anaïs Nin
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