From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. - Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?I wouldn't call you that... - Anthony Horowitz, Scorpia

Everyone is the other and no one is himself. - Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

Mrs. Spence picks up a roll of toilet paper from the counter and scrunches her nose.“Ask Caymen about that,” Xander says.Great, now I have to explain to his mother about my vandalism? “Your son called me with a toilet paper emergency. I rushed right over.”She looks confused so Xander says, “She’s kidding, Mom. - Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

MenThey hail you as their morning starBecause you are the way you are.If you return the sentiment,They'll try to make you different;And once they have you, safe and sound,They want to change you all around.Your moods and ways they put a curse on;They'd make of you another person.They cannot let you go your gait;They influence and educate.They'd alter all that they admired.They make me sick, they make me tired. - Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities. - Roy T. Bennett

I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me. - C. JoyBell C.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business - Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. - C.S. Lewis

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads? - Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning. - Jean-Paul Sartre

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people. - Kelly Bryson, Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying? - Jim Butcher, Death Masks

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. - Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely. - Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants