We are all failures — at least the best of us are. — J.M. Barrie

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. — Emma Goldman

Life is very weird, no matter how it ends, very filled with dreams. — “Vita Nova,” Louise Glück

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. — Samuel Johnson

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.” — Haruki Murakami

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It’s one of those tragedies that I’ve forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. — Matt Smith

On one side of the balance is the need for home, for the deep solid roots of place and belonging; on the other is the desire for travel and motion, for the single separate spark of the self freely moving forward, out into time, into the great absorbing stream of the world. A fierce internal debate, between staying moored and drifting away, between holding on and letting go. Perhaps wisdom lies in our ability to negotiate between these two poles. Necessary to us, both of them – but how to live in connection without feeling suffocated, compromised, erased? We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and…

If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein

Tired and wired we ruin too easy Sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave — “Apartment Story”, The National