Quote by Samuel Beckett

“I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary…

— Gretchen Rubin

“I had learned that you could imagine anything you wanted, that the space inside your head belonged only to you. Furnished and decorated and…

— Beatriz Williams

“sat down, though, I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you…

— Jeannette Walls

“No need to be envious of you and what you have to offer the world. There's enough space for me and my purpose as…

— Shalonda "Treasure" Williams

“Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

“There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time,…

— Marjorie M. Liu

“My needs were simple. I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted…

— Ian McEwan

“Long ago, I had learned that you could imagine anything you wanted, that the space inside your head belonged to you. Furnished and decorated…

— Beatriz Williams

“There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or…

— Henry David Thoreau

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.”

— Connie Willis