"The idea being that if I was so incredibly small, then I could do almost anything, because what impact would I have, really? What damage could be done, being so puny in the big scheme?"
Rosecrans Baldwin
"She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names."
Robin McKinley
"A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift."
Marcel Proust
"The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey."
Enya
"What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself."
Paul Theroux
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
Eric Roth
"It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me."
Chuck Berry
"The past is never where you think you left it."
Katherine Anne Porter
"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."
Anonymous
Inspiration
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Sanober Khan
"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
Jodie Foster
"Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation."
Anonymous
Inspiration
I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.
Thich Nhat Hanh
"1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave."
Jessie Burton
"Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself."
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