"I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes." - Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft
"I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive, and sly." - Margaret Atwood
"Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religions, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war." - Jonathan Safran Foer
"You want the truth, of course. You want to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones." - Margaret Atwood
"Sometimes I wonder if my whole life will pass by this way: me waiting in the shadows, waiting for something to happen. Waiting for someone else to make it happen. Something new or different or crazy and amazing. I've been there for so long, letting everyone else figure it out for me, floating along without much direction or conscious thought. Reacting." - Sarah Ockler
"It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, why it has always been so easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionary adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes." - Jon Krakauer
Photo is "Keep True to the Dreams of Your Youth" - from AxnAkshan.
