Touchstones Daily Meditations Quotes

#1. Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

Junot Diaz

#2. You will never find a rainbow if you are looking down

Charlie Chaplin

#3. I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

Leopold Kohr

#6. Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.

Justin Somper

#7. I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

Damien Hirst

#8. No, you don't have to live inside my head. For every, just, insanely stupid thing I do or say, there are like fifty even worse ones that I just barely avoid doing or saying, just out of dumb luck.

Jesse Andrews

#9. A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. There is no bad in good.

Douglas Horton

#11. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#13. I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Carolyn Murphy

#14. Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Emma Forrest

#15. Was it possible to be homesick for a soul?

Jessica Dotta