Today

“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

- Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end, fate only knows the word goodbye.”

- Shannon L. Alder

“We all have the same life expectancy: one. One life, that’s all we get.”

- Drew Boswell, Climbing the Cancer Mountain

“He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”

- Monique Duval

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

- Napoléon Bonaparte

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

- Carl Sagan