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"We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile”
― Marty Rubin

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”
― Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

The stars are reminders to me of how insignificant I am in the overall scheme of things. That's somehow comforting to me. The amazing scale of this vast cathedral I call home.

“suicide fails as you get older:
there’s less and less to kill.”
― Charles Bukowski

"Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others."
― Timothy Leary

"Amazingly, there are even more possible variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe. This is the Shannon Number and represents all of the possible move variations in the game of chess. It is estimated there are between 10 to the power of 111 and 10 to the power of 123 positions (including illegal moves) in Chess."--The Internet

“He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It’s fucking near water.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for your self — and there isn’t one."---Wei Wu Wei

“We share our craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan

“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― Joyce Carol Oates