- Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- Il n'y a pas d'amour de vivre sans désespoir de vivre. -- Albert Camus
- Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results. -- Anonymous
- I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. -- Leo Rosten
- Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -- Cynthia Nelms
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. -- George C. Lichtenberg
- Be happy while you’re living for you’re a long time dead. -- Scottish Proverb
- Sanity is a madness put to good use. -- Santayana
- The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. -- Victor Borge
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” -- Jack Kerouac
- My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. -- Jack Kerouac
- All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. -- Jack Kerouac
- A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. -- Jack Kerouac
- …no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I’d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity. -- Jack Kerouac
- All of life is a foreign country. -- Jack Kerouac
- Your burden is not to clear your conscience, but to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience. -- T.S. Eliot
- Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. -- Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
- I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. -- Kurt Vonnegut
- Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. -- Kurt Vonnegut
- Elle n'avait jamais su l'importance que peut revêtir un individu pour un autre, car elle n'avait jamais été solitaire. -- Stefan Zweig
- Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. -- Benjamin Disraeli
- In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. -- Frantz Fanon
- I would not be a queen for all the world. -- Henry VIII, I.2
- Oh my gosh, I thought, does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? -- The Elegance of the Hedgehog , Muriel Barbery
- Tamina will never know what they came to tell her. But I do. They did not come to warn or scold or threaten her. They are not at all concerned with her. They came, each one of them, to tell her about themselves. About how they ate, how they slept, how they ran up to the fence, and what they saw on the other side. About how they had spent their important childhood in the important village of Rourou. About how their important orgasm had lasted six hours. About how they saw a woman on the other side of the fence and she was wearing a knitted shawl over her head. About how they swam, fell ill, and then recovered. About how they had been young, ridden bicycles, and eaten a sack of grass that day. There they are, standing face to face with Tamina, telling her their stories, all at the same time, belligerently, pressingly, aggressively, because there is nothing more important than what they want to tell her. -- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Milan Kundera
- The best of all possible progressive ideas is the one which is provocative enough so its supporters can feel proud of being different, but popular enough so the risk of isolation is precluded by cheering crowds confident of victory. -- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Milan Kundera
- It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning; love, convictions, faith, history. Human life- and herein lies its secret- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch. -- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Milan Kundera
- Carrying bags, a navy taxi man said, "Take your time love, 'cause you don't have to rush, 'cause it's your life and it's no one else's, sweetheart. Don't let someone put you in a box." --"Navy Taxi", Kate Nash
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