"Not realizing that one’s future is already one’s present as it dissolves into the past."
— David Markson, Reader’s Block

"There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it."
— Sylvia Plath, undated journal entry (c. 1950 - 1953)

"We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow."
— Theodore Roethke, “The Waking”

"The richness of life lives in the memories we have forgotten."
— Cesare Pavese, journal entry dated 13th February 1944

"Already we mistrust our wakefulness;
if we are dreaming, then let us dream,
until our dream convinces us."
— Gabriela Mistral, from “Two Forgotten Ones”

"He was privileged to be aware of his youth and to enjoy it in a series of present moments crammed full with intense experience."
— Iris Murdoch, The Bell

"Let’s not repress something as simple as wanting to live life itself."
— Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
- The Zeitgeist Movement

"The validity and strength of emotions cannot be overestimated, for they represent in only slightly tinged form the uncamouflaged vitality of the universe as it passes through the inner self. Emotions represent, therefore, this vitality before it has been constructed into camouflage. It has been tinged psychologically in its entry through the subconscious, but that is all. Emotions are the most vital tools with which you have to work. It is for this reason that you must learn how to use them."
- Seth, The Early Sessions, Book 3