I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them”.
– Anais Nin
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98518-i-am-lonely-yet-not-everybody-will-do-i-don-t
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
– Frank Herbert, Dune
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2-i-must-not-fear-fear-is-the-mind-killer-fear-is
It’s a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in…because that’s what’s familiar. That’s the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they’re just continuing the pattern.
– Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless and Hopeful
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/538877-it-s-a-false-premise-to-say-that-most-monogamous-people
When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12021-when-two-people-meet-and-fall-in-love-there-s-a
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2448-to-live-is-the-rarest-thing-in-the-world-most
Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we’ll get along.
– spoken by Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, 1954 film based on a novel by Herman Wouk