If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications. - Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

In definitiv, cu cat vei ridica un zid mai inalt in jurul tau cu atat va fi mai bun cel care-l va sari. - Tudor Chirilă, Exerciţii de echilibru

The warrior is Here, Now. - Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff. - Colleen Houck

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. - Rob Bell

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. - James Joyce

What others think about you is none of your business. - Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means. - Gustave Flaubert

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know. - Adolf Hitler

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. - Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us - shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung - Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude. - Richelle Mead

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. - Eudora Welty

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet. - Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich? - Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. - Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go. - Lana Del Rey