„There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You’re always ripe and ready to be taken.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„In all base schools of art, the craftsman is dependent for his bread on originality; that is to say, on finding in himself some fragment of isolated faculty, by which his work may be distinct from that of other men. We are ready enough to take delight in our little doings, without any such stimulus; — what must be the effect of the popular applause which continually suggests that the little thing we can separately do is as excellent as it is singular; and what the effect of the bribe, held out to us through the whole of life, to produce — it being also in our peril not to produce — something different from the work of our neighbors?“
— John Ruskin
„I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.“
— Tennessee Williams
„What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.“
— Carl Sagan