"Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7."

-- Kafu Nagai

#Beauty Quotes #Knowing Quotes #This Life Quotes

“Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.”
“My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasnâ€™t mentioned such an important plot point.”
“Easy for you to say. Youâ€™re the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing.”
“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.”
“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”

Source : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company
“If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.”
“Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.”
“The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.”

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