Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

Shamim Sarif

You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Jane Austen

Of course drugs were fun.

Anjelica Huston

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Haruki Murakami

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

David Sedaris

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Elizabeth Edwards

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose

William Shakespeare

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural size, certain truths must be strained in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Joseph Roux

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nevell Bovee