“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear,...”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“When man was being made, the Creator was a schoolmaster—His bag full of commandments and principles; but when He came to woman, He resigned His headmastership and turned artist, with only His brush and paint-box.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,—cannot be altogether men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury...”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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