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
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
– E.E.Cummings
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No social stability without individual stability.
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Estragon: I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
– Aldous Huxley
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
– Thomas Hardy
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
– Aldous Huxley
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
– Virginia Woolf
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
– Paulo Coelho
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
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
– Oscar Wilde
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
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
– Oscar Wilde
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
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