"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." ― Emile Zola Topic(s): Life More From Emile Zola "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it." "The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men." "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity." More In Life "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."― Henry David Thoreau "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."― William Shakespeare "I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."― J. K. Rowling