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Any man can lose his hat in a fairy wind -- Irish saying
“You were born unique. Do not let the world make you conform to the limitations present in the prevailing winds of thought. Be the unique breeze with no limits or destination and keep on flowing!”
― Avijeet Das
"Nobody in the whole world is normal. That's an idea made up by clothing companies to sell t-shirts. It doesn't exist in nature. Everybody gets to be weird in their own special way.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist. Book One
"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what? That's one of my favorite things to say. So what?”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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“It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.”
― David Foster Wallace
“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“Try to let what is unfair teach you…what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher…you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable."---David Foster Wallace
“I've gotten free of that ignorant fist that was pinching and twisting my secret self. The universe and the light of the stars come through me.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

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“Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.”
― Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life

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