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“Not all mountaineers make the summit; sometimes they turn back, retool, keep coming at it. They’re just never satisfied with standing at the bottom, hanging out with all the other nonclimbers and explaining their lack of ascent. No, they packed up their tent and moved forward, and they will pass from this world knowing they gave every ounce of their effort. That they played full out. They loved the climb.”
― Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life

“ما من حصيلة مقنعة تماماً، ما من تجاوز من دون خسارة، ما من توافق نهائي وتام، ما من عزاءٍ مطلق، ما من حياةٍ قِوامها الدّعة المستديمة... إن عكس المأسوي هو الفردوس، وعكس الفردوس هو الحياة كما هي.”
― André Comte-Sponville, Le capitalisme est-il moral?

“لهذا عليّ أن أعود
إلى أماكن كثيرة آتية
لألتقي بي
وأتفحصني دون توقف.
دون شاهد سوى القمر،
ثم لأصفّر بسعادة
واطئاً أحجاراً وأتربة.
دون مهمة أخرى سوى الحياة.
ودون أسرة سوى الطريق”
― Pablo Neruda

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex