If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and to make it the object of our game; and the game is the only thing of importance in a world without importance.  Milan Kundera

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying, “Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.  Faith is walking face first and full speed into the dark.  Elizabeth Gilbert

If someone were to weigh the beauty of moonlight against the depth of human cruelty, which would win?  Alice Hoffman

I often feel aversion, even disgust at the same words written and spoken over and over. At the same expressions, phrases and metaphors repeated.  And the worst is, when I hear myself and have to admit I too repeat the eternally same things. They’re so horribly frayed and threadbare these words, worn out by being used millions of times.  Do they still have any meaning? Are they still an expression of thoughts?  Pascal Mercier

I found it eerie how everyone had been talking only to themselves. Everyone always acts as if it were different. As if it were enormously important what they said.  Pascal Mercier

The best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.    Frances Mayes

What could, what should be done with all the time now before us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty?   -P. Mercier

It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.   -Oscar Levant