"A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal."
Pessoa
"The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself."
G.I. Gurdjieff
"I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be."
Shannon L. Alder
"His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it."
Cormac McCarthy
"All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I’m shooting them on-sight."
J.D. Cunegan
"A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something."
Bruce Crown
"Women: One of the most mysterious forces on the planet have had a very profound impact on men since millennia, for they are gifted with an alchemical agent - Discontinuity ~ Any one who encounters their presence gets disconnected with their past, a very life changing experience."
Ramana Pemmaraju
"Life is a learning process.Learn from your mistakes.The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows."
Megan Fox
"Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done. Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you will remain, made up of possibilities."
Édouard Levé
"One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country."
Nick Clooney
"It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus."
Erin Bow
"...Just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives."
Steve Martin
"They can't see your painThey can't see your sadness They will smile if you smile to themThey will leave you if you frown to them."
Hadi NourAllah
"Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart."
Paul Russell
"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!"
Henry David Thoreau
"She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes."
Gustave Flaubert
"Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said."
Sarah Ockler
"This poor little one-horse town."
Mark Twain
"The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?"