„it seemed to me that I had never metanother person on earthas discouraging to my happinessas my father.and it appeared that I hadthe same effect uponhim.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.“
— Harriet Tubman
„And in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost money. But I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime…investing, that is.“
— Robert T. Kiyosaki