The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

I want by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all I am capable of becoming….This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it; it’s no longer so. I feel happy – deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield: Journal (1922) last entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard

I’ve dreamed in my life dreams that have stayed with me, even after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Brontë

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.

Anaïs Nin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?

Frank Scully

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Scully

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E.L. Doctorow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Doctorow

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination as I do.

Anaïs Nin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson