I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be strong
Hold on and don’t shed a tear

Through the darkness and good times
I knew I’d make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you

Aldo Nova and Stephan Moccio

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Sherlock Holmes

The horror. The horror.

“When asked “What thing about humanity surprises you the most?”, the Dalai Lama answered:

“Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Dalai Lama

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Christopher, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Haddon

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Steve Jobs

谁是朋友谁不是，一目了然，但南孙觉得无人有资格叫朋友两肋插刀，更加心如刀割。

亦舒《流金岁月》

勿以善小而不为；勿以恶小而为之。

金庸《倚天屠龙记》

Who prays for what is past, prays in vain.

Talmud, Berakot, Mishna IX, 3.

On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we preferred to be strangers.

Christa Wolf, Model Childhood