“Life was immeasurably better once I forced myself to stop taking it seriously.”
- Hunter S. Thompson

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
- Frederick Buechner

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.”
Charles de Lint

‘My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.’ 
 Hermann Hesse