A collection of quotes that have inspired, moved, and stayed with me.

  • Quote – Sylvia Plath

    How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • Quote – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Love does not dominate; it cultivates. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Quote – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • Quote – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Quote – E.E. Cummings

    Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E.E.Cummings

  • Quote – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Quote – Aldous Huxley

    No social stability without individual stability. – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • Quote – Samuel Beckett

    Estragon: I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. – Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

  • Quote – Aldous Huxley

    There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. – Aldous Huxley

  • Quote – Thomas Hardy

    The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. – Thomas Hardy

  • Quote – Aldous Huxley

    To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

  • Quote – Virginia Woolf

    I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how worse, perhaps, to be locked in. – Virginia Woolf

  • Quote – Paulo Coelho

    Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. – Paulo Coelho

  • Quote – Robert Anton Wilson

    The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you’ll see that they’re all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. – Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

  • Quote – Albert Camus

    Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

  • Quote – Oscar Wilde

    Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. – Oscar Wilde

  • Quote – Mark Twain

    With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. – Mark Twain

  • Quote – F. Scott Fitzgerald

    They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Quote – Oscar Wilde

    I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. – Oscar Wilde

  • Quote – Nelson Mandela

    To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. – Nelson Mandela