Monomaniaco Quotes & Sayings

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop. — Fran Lebowitz

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day. — Rumi

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money — Warren Buffett

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable. — Vikram Seth

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe. — Sam Harris

I loved her totally, and while I loved her, the world was love. Once she was gone, the world seemed to prove nothing more than ruins and the smoldering dreams of monsters. — Paul Harding

survival is triumph enough. — Harry Crews

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

a dream without a plan is just a wish — Katherine Paterson

I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters. — Daphne Guinness

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work. — Ann Romney

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. — Audre Lorde

Sometimes I just wonder,like,how could anyone else possibly be this lost,too?!Sometimes the words are so beautiful and true and unsettling I just want to hug my book and make sure nobody else in the world ever reads those words,because they are mine,Goddamnit,and they apply to me, and damn it if anyone else is going to steal my words and plug them into their lives! — Seth King