“God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.”
-Barbara Kingsolver
“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.”
-William Shakespeare
“Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell. ”
-Edgar Allan Poe
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
—Ayn Rand
“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were a fraud.”
-David Foster Wallace
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields.”
-N. Scott Momaday
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
― Albert Camus
“My God, a moment of bliss. Why isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
