Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.... Erica Jong
The world is too noisy and distracted to probably ultimately survive. Everyone needs to shut the fuck up. The answers are in the silence. Monks set themselves on fire to protest and to make this point. Just consider it. Garry Shandling
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. Toni Morrison
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. Patti Smith
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. Donna Tartt
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be. Evelyn Waugh
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. Annie Dillard
