"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read."
-- Charles Jones

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be awake, joyously, drunkenly; serenely; divinely awake. "
-- Henry Miller

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. "
-- Friedrich Nietzsche