Life

"Life is not the opposite of death. Death is the opposite of birth. Life is eternal."
( Anathema - Presence )

Perception

If you want to change the world, you have to act. If you want to change the perception you have about the world, you have to think. 

( Coursera On Strategy : What Managers Can Learn from Philosophy - PART 1 )

Kafka

"In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world." --Franz Kafka

Friends

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gave value to survival.

(http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/08/c-s-lewis-four-loves-friendship/ ) 

Xenoicide: Ender Series, book 3

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

Sick systems

People rarely get stuck because of their vices. They're usually caught by their virtues.

(http://issendai.livejournal.com/573443.html)

Henry and June

Perfection is static, and I am in full progress.