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