"My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

“Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.”

Source : Hersh Shefrin (2000). “Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing”, p.110, Oxford University Press

“. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.”

“The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.”

“They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.420, Penguin

“This flour of wifly patience.”

“The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.”

“There's a moment on the arch of a jump, when you are neither rising nor falling. All you can see is the sky. All you can feel is the air and all you can hear is your heartbeat. That is all you are. Muscle and motion. It's called the deadpoint. I live for that.”