Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923

I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Victor Hugo, Les Mis

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Thomas Wolfe

One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

Voltaire

Death is just life's next big adventure.

J. K. Rowling

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

George Weinberg

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Dr. Robert Anthony