A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-Whitney Otto
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath