Personal philosophy Quote by Richard Russo

“should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I understood. Being from a place where a few facts are enough to define you, where a few habits can fill a life, causes…

— Kevin Powers

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.”

— David Lagercrantz

“Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“I think I've lived quite the unorthodox life so far, but you probably feels that way about yourself too. So much goes untold in…

— Connor Franta

“I have never met a couple with such integrity, such closeness as those two. They comprised their own little universe.”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Many things receded into the distance behind him, seemed ridiculous or fantastical, or both. Were, at their core, unimportant.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend…

— Paul Russell

“We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.”

— Robert Henri