You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
— Ray Bradbury
Is one of the symptoms loss of faith? Or faith in loss?
— Amy Hempel
Life is such hopscotch.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth - the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a-night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
— Emily Dickinson
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes
— Erasmus
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
— Lesson of the Day
Your other self is always sorry for you. But your other self grows on sorrow; so all is well.
— Khalil Gibran
I believe that if at the end of it all, according to our abilities, if we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is all we can do.
To make other less happy, is a crime.To make ourselves less happy, is where all crime starts.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true, no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
—
-Roger Ebert
-Roger Ebert
There’s a dark side to every human being. We’re not 100% good. Occasionally we slip into that dark side. If you’re lucky and smart you can save yourself from letting the darkness overcome you.
— Whael Khairy, Roger Ebert far flung correspondent
He was born sleepless without a talent for rest of the desire for it.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
God would never let your faith go to waste.
— Quran, 2:143
I didn’t want to have to explain good people to good people, protect good people from good people, yet again and again that is what I felt I was being asked to do. Adulthood came to me like that: A realization that no one else was going to fly this plane
— G. Willow Wilson, The Butterfly Mosque
If I was going to survive as a Muslim in a Muslim country, I needed to develop a healthy appreciation for the absurd.
— G. Willow Wilson, The Butterfly Mosque
Say, ” in the name of God”, to find your true name.
— Rumi
