Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Charlie Sheen

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

Samuel Johnson

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Pandora Poikilos

Wenn eine Frau ihre Fehler nicht charmant begehen kann, ist sie nichts als ein Weib.

Oscar Wilde

I don't really see myself as famous.

MyAnna Buring

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Lionel Trilling, Notebook entry,