I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ― Henry David Thoreau

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If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. – Steven Pressfield

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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There are in every person's life certain sorrows, losses, and disappointments which they must never surrender too. These unreturned loves, these bad breaks and wrong turns, these defeats—the heartbreaks that we all incur—make for the richness of our lives. – Unknown

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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

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When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know. – Unknown

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Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind. – William Wordsworth

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ― J.R.R. Tolkien

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