“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it— don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist— but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
— Haruki Murakami
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it”
— Pablo Picasso
"My dear, in the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love... In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…in the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger...something better, pushing right back.”
— Albert Camus