"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."
Franz Kafka
"I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it."
Jamie Oliver
"That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them."
Malorie Blackman
"Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you."
Kamal Ravikant
"In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning."
Anonymous
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem
"Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over."
Erin Bow
"The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief."
Natasha Trethewey
"My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective."
Rufus Sewell
"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch.'What happened?' Matt asked, gasping.I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald."
Nancy Farmer
"Life cannot deny you of what you desired when you are committed to your dreams."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too."
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