Today

"What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music."

- Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

"Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile."

- Hans Selye

"because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars..."

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

- Groucho Marx

“The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”

- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

- Anais Nin

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”

- Frank Zappa

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

- Ernest Hemingway

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known”

- Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days