"You could be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll stil get run over."
"I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins." - Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
"This wish, this childish wish, had grown so strong within him: to find peace by destroying his body." - Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"Life isn't worth it if you're not fighting." - my friend Krystyn
"In moments of suffering, he had never let pain win its one permanent victory: he had never allowed it to make him lose the desire for joy." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." - Louise Bogan
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, desparingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
"And no one came to say that your life belongs to you, and that the good is to live it." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson