“Sometimes the best mode of transportation is a leap of faith." ~ Marta Reis

"Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don’t understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they’re there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it’s the other side that matters.” ~ José Saramago

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

"You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity,that the whole existence will miss you.The stars, sun and moon,the trees and birds and earth- everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which can't be filled by anybody but you." ~ Osho

"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth." ~ Margaret Atwood

There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one that people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. ~ Light Years - James Salter

The thing is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again
~Ellen Bass

"What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." ~ Viktor Frankl