The search for profound quotes about life and destiny always feels like digging for hidden treasure to me. I stumbled upon a goldmine in Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'—lines like 'When someone seeks... then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing he seeks' still give me chills. Eastern philosophy texts, like the 'Tao Te Ching,' are another endless well of wisdom; Lao Tzu’s 'The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step' is deceptively simple yet endlessly layered.
For something more modern, I obsessively collect quotes from films like 'The Shawshank Redemption' ('Get busy living or get busy dying') or anime like 'Attack on Titan' ('If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you don’t fight, you can’ win!'). Even video games surprise me—the 'Dark Souls' series peppers item descriptions with bleakly poetic musings on fate. Honestly, I’ve started keeping a notebook just for these snippets; they’re like little life rafts when I need perspective.