“ You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive? Jalaluddin Rumi
“ You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased. A.S. Byatt
“ Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal… Ian Mcewan
“ The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you'r… Jodi Picoult
“ Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. Frank Herbert
“ It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in the past he'd reached this absolute zero of the truth, and without fear or bitterness he realiz… Denis Johnson
“ In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. Oscar Wilde
“ If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on the threshold of eternal darkness, with oneself the only witness. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
“ E sempre é bom termos consciência de que dentro de nós há alguém que tudo sabe, tudo quer e age melhor do que nós mesmos Hermann Hesse
“ Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. Herbert Otto
“ No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within. R. W. Clark
“ I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. Katherine Mansfield
“ A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them. Jean Lush
“ No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. Joseph Conrad
“ It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too. Josh Billings
