inspiration

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

"I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

"Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made."

"Exuberance is beauty."

"To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."

"I don’t want to freeze my eggs. I don’t want to visit a sperm bank. I don’t want to be a single parent, if I have any choice in the matter. I want a nuclear family. I want to put down roots, to let my seeds germinate, to watch them bloom and flourish. Not one day, if and when I ever fall in love again, but now. While I still have my youth, damn it."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."

"If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved."

"Cultivate plants which attract lovely company."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

"We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within."

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

"Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it."

"We convince by our presence."

"What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?"

"I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you."

"Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway."

"We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation."