“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”

“Depending on what you believe in life, you are capable of achieving anything without changing your body somehow.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed

“And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving "love", your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable…”

Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer

“Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

“I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.”

Peter F. Hamilton book The Reality Dysfunction

“You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.”

John Scalzi book Redshirts