“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.” Neil Gaiman
“Had I not created my whole world, I would have certainly died in other people’s.” Anais Nin
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.” Neil Gaiman
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.” Jeffrey Eugenides, Virgin Suicides
“Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant inner Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwlling place inside you.” Eckhart Tolle
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the ere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.” Lewis Thomas
“Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone- riding her bike across campus or sitting in the cafe- even dancing, she danced alone. And it was the aloneness that filled him with love.”
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery- air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘this is what it is to be happy.’” Sylvia Plath
“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be.” Chuck Palahniuk
“When you’re young, you always feel that life hasn’t yet begun- that “life” is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays- whenever. But then suddenly you’re old and the scheduled life didn’t arrive. You find yourself asking, “well, then, exactly what was it I was having- that interlude- the scrambly madness- all that time I had before?’” Douglas Coupland
“She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” Zelda Fitzgerald
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate that sense of the beautiful which has been implanted in the human soul.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.” Mikhail Gorbachev
“She could speak to the tornadoes and call them to where she was. With the wave of her hand she showed the waves how to roll. She’d sing to the sun and in return he would shine down upon her with every mystery. And when she spoke; tiny, little silver stars would drip from her lips and fall to the ground where she stood. Everywhere she walked and went she’d leave a small galaxy in her place. Tiny, little Milky Ways sprinkled her city streets. But still, not even The Hubble could capture her.” Anonymous
“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She wase the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.” Jerry Spinelli
“I am a traveler in my soul and free from all belongings: Nowhere I belong, I am time, I am freedom.” Mahmud Kianush
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.” William Faulkner
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” Lewis Carroll
“Through literacy you can being to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between those two there is you, unstoppable.” Grace Slick
“Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.”
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if a your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
A man of words and not of deeds,
is like a garden full of weeds
and when the weeds begin to grow
it’s like a garden full of snow
and when the snow beings to fall
it’s like a bird upon the wall
and when the bird away does fly
it’s like an eagle in the sky
and when the sky beings to roar
it’s like a lion at the door
and when teh door beings to crack
it’s like a stick across your back
and when your back beings to smart
it’s like a penknife in your heart
and when your heart beings to bleed
you’re dead, and dead, and dead indeed.
“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.” Hunter S. Thompson
“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.” John Green
I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day- spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be gree…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself “The girl who wanted to be God’.” Sylvia Plath
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” Jonathan Safran Foer
I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah. Now, if that isn’t a hazard to our country…How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean? What’s gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize that we’re all One? Bill Hicks
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. It goes on forever inwardly. Do you understand? Being the fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to be bored.”
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” John Green