Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

Dostoevsky... life is a gift, don't forget that

Dostoevsky... life is a gift, don't forget that

Nietzsche on marriage, actually so solid

Nietzsche, so profound

Cormac McCarthy, oof

Cormac McCarthy, what a writer

Van Gogh, beautiful

Abraham Maslow... hits home

Robert Anton Wilson, remember that

My favourite Nietzsche quote of all time

C. S. Lewis saying more in one paragraph than many say in whole books

Henry David Thoreau, beautiful

Van Gogh, oh boy could he write

Chuck Palahniuk, goddamn

— Fernando Pessoa, 1982

Carl Jung... not being yourself hurts everyone else

Joan Didion, every day is all there is

Carl Jung, reading him will change you

You don't need self-help books, you need Steinbeck

Thoreau, just keep going

C. S. Lewis, a reminder

Albert Einstein... goddamn

What a line

Terence McKenna, nature loves courage

J. R. R. Tolkien, a good reminder

Carl Jung, just be who you are

C. S. Lewis on friendship, magical read it slowly

— Anaïs Nin, 1939

What a legend he was

Eric Hoffer, perfection

Nietzsche, I feel this more and more

Viktor Frankl, the highest mode of being

Hemingway, evergreen

C. S. Lewis, just keep going

Hermann Hesse, remember

Joseph Campbell, profoundly true

C. S. Lewis on why kids need to read

Gustave Flaubert, a creative mantra

Rilke, just keep going

Dostoevsky, timeless

Friedrich Nietzsche says it perfectly, genius is taste

C. S. Lewis on human nature... sublime

Rudyard Kipling later in life, evergreen

C. S. Lewis, got this on repeat in my head

Van Gogh, you can just do things

Carl Jung, has always stayed with me

C. S. Lewis, damn

Nietzsche, remember

You can read Siddhartha 100 times and still be blown away at the 101st