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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.
— Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
— Robert Frost
She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them.I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.
— Ron Hall
For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.
— Nicholas Sparks
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
— Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.
— Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
It’s like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that’s all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen.
— Colleen Houck
That dress…was a very, very good decision. I could write an entire poem on the virtues of your legs alone. You are a feast for the senses.” I laughed. “I don’t know about a feast. Maybe just an hors d'oeuvre.” He took my hand and wrapped it around his arm. “Not an hors d'oeuvre. The dessert. And I plan to spoil my appetite.
— Colleen Houck
There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
— Helen Keller
We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.
— Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise
I'd run my whole life long to reach you
—  paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
— Lao Tzu
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Just in case you ever foolishly forget
—  I'm never not thinking of you.
Your heart can break at any age.
— Cecelia Ahern
Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. He was Nico's favorite game, Mythomagic, brought to life.Jason saw the moment when Percy returned and told Nico that Bianca was dead. Nico had screamed and called him a liar. He'd felt betrayed, but still... when the skeleton warriors attacked, he couldn't let them harm Percy. Nico had called on the earth to swallow them up, and then he'd run away- terrified of his own powers, and his own emotions.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. 
— Walter Scott
Drualt took Freya's warm hand,Her strong hand,Her sword hand,And pressed it to his lips,Pressed it to his heart.Come with me,' he said.Come with me to battle,My love. Tarry at my side.Stay with meWhen battle is done.Tarry at my side.Laugh with me,And walk with meThe long, long way.Tarry with me,My love, at my side.
— Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
— Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for﻿ dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
— Andrea Gibson
My girlfriend is a party girl angel who can kick some arse and cook.
— Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril
It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face 'cause they don't love that either. You got to love it, you! And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This is flesh I'm talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I'm telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. and all your inside parts that they'd just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver--love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
— Kahlil Gibran, Visions of the Prophet
I'd sleep outside naked in the blizzard,for you.
— Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tigerMy wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitudeWith the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earthWith the tongue of rubbed amber and glassMy wife with the tongue of a stabbed hostWith the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyesWith the tongue of an unbelievable stoneMy wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writingWith brows of the edge of a swallow's nestMy wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roofAnd of steam on the panesMy wife with shoulders of champagneAnd of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the iceMy wife with wrists of matchesMy wife with fingers of luck and ace of heartsWith fingers of mown hayMy wife with armpits of marten and of beechnutAnd of Midsummer NightOf privet and of an angelfish nestWith arms of seafoam and of riverlocksAnd of a mingling of the wheat and the millMy wife with legs of flaresWith the movements of clockwork and despairMy wife with calves of eldertree pithMy wife with feet of initialsWith feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinkingMy wife with a neck of unpearled barleyMy wife with a throat of the valley of goldOf a tryst in the very bed of the torrentWith breasts of nightMy wife with breasts of a marine molehillMy wife with breasts of the ruby's crucibleWith breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dewMy wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of daysWith the belly of a gigantic clawMy wife with the back of a bird fleeing verticallyWith a back of quicksilverWith a back of lightWith a nape of rolled stone and wet chalkAnd of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinkingMy wife with hips of a skiffWith hips of a chandelier and of arrow-feathersAnd of shafts of white peacock plumesOf an insensible pendulumMy wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestosMy wife with buttocks of swans' backsMy wife with buttocks of springWith the sex of an irisMy wife with the sex of a mining-placer and of a platypusMy wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeatMy wife with a sex of mirrorMy wife with eyes full of tearsWith eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needleMy wife with savanna eyesMy wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prisonMy wife with eyes of wood always under the axeMy wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire
— André Breton, Poems of  André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
Something that is yours forever is never precious
— Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured."Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
— Cassandra Clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.
— Maria V. Snyder, Touch of Power
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
— Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
— Dr. Seuss
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
— Mae West
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
— Robert Frost
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
— Oscar Wilde
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
— Narcotics Anonymous
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
— Albert Einstein
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
— Allen Saunders
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Everything you can imagine is real.
— Pablo Picasso
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
— Dr. Seuss
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
— Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
I'm not afraid of death
—  I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
— Albert Einstein
Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!
— Bob Marley
Reality continues to ruin my life.
— Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.
— Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in
—  forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
— Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
— Khaled Hosseini
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
— Mark Twain
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
— Albert Einstein
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
— George Harrison
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
— Isaac Asimov
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
— George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not
—  and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
— Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.
— Gilda Radner
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
— E.B. White
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
May you live every day of your life.
— Jonathan Swift
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.
— Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Get busy living or get busy dying.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
— May Sarton
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
— John Lennon
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
— John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
— Walt Disney Company, Mulan
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.
— Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
— Abigail Van Buren
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
— Audrey Hepburn
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
— Stephen King
Life can only be understood backwards
—  but it must be lived forwards.
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
— Alan Moore
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
— Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
— Woody Allen
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
— Maya Angelou
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
— Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
— William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
— George Carlin
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
— Jim Morrison
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
— Arthur C. Clarke
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camus
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
— Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
— Margaret Mitchell
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
— Albert Schweitzer
Some people have lives
—  some people have music.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
— Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
— E.E. Cummings
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. 
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
— Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
— John Lennon
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
— Abraham Lincoln
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
— C. JoyBell C.
Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
— G.K. Chesterton
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.
— Colleen Hoover, Slammed
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
— François Rabelais
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Live to the point of tears.
— Albert Camus
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
To say goodbye is to die a little.
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
— Mark Twain
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
— Paul Simon
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you
—  life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
— Emily Dickinson
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Even death has a heart.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
— Anaïs Nin
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
— Émile Zola
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
— Jodi Picoult
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
— C. JoyBell C.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
— Paulo Coelho
The past has no power over the present moment.
— Eckhart Tolle
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
— Steve Maraboli
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
— C. JoyBell C.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
— Lao Tzu
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
In a time of destruction, create something.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,The insolence of office and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd!
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
— A.A. Milne
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them
—  that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
— Paulo Coelho
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
— Frank Zappa
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
— Oprah Winfrey
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
— Anaïs Nin
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
— Terry Pratchett
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
— Sylvia Plath
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. 
— Boris Pasternak
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
— Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
— Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
— Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
— John Lennon
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
— Albert Schweitzer
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
— Confucius
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
— Dr. Seuss
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
— Bob Marley
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
— Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
— Harvey Fierstein
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
— Bill Watterson
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
— Steve Maraboli
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
— Oprah Winfrey
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
— Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
— Anaïs Nin
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
— Ben Okri
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
— Helen Keller, The Open Door
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
— Erica Jong
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
— Woody Allen
Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand
— Hayley Williams
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
— Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
— Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.
— Alysha Speer
Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone
—  change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free