Laravel

→ I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
→ You can cover a great deal of country in books.
→ When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
→ Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

→ The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
→ The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
→ Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
→ I have nothing to declare except my genius.

→ It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
→ And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
→ People can tell you to keep your mouth shut but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
→ No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

→ Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
→ Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
→ There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
→ Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

→ A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
→ When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
→ What a strange machine man is. You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out come sighs, laughter and dreams.
→ I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Sylvia Plath