“I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”

“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is gods messenger.”

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

“Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.”

“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

“It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.”

“An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.”

“The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.”