I’m an avid reader, and in my reading I take lots of notes. When I find a quote that I like, I make a note of it. These are a handful of some of my favorites.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.
Lewis Black

You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski

Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day.
Albert Camus

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Simone Weil

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be… a prudent insurance policy.
Elizabeth Gilbert

God and the imagination are one.
Wallace Stevens

We ought not to grow tired of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Brother Lawrence

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O’Connor

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
Paul Tillich

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. C.S. Lewis

We are not simply to bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. C.S. Lewis

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things will never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Donald Miller

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Søren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes who you are. Søren Kierkegaard

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. Ludwig Wittgenstein