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Beauty is not caused. It is.
— Emily Dickinson
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
— Chuck Pahlaniuk, Fight Club
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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
— Voltaire, on his deathbed, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
— Mae West
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None but ourselves can free our mind.
— Bob Marley
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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
— Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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It’s a bore”, he said out loud. “What is, my dear?” “Anything you do too bloody long”.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
— John Muir, My First Summer in Sierra
