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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
— Maya Angelou
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
— Neil Peart
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.
— Anita Roddick
Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you.
— Phil Lester
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.2.	Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.3.	Death ends a life, not a relationship.4.	Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.5.	Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling.6.	As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
— Morrie Schwartz
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace  it.
— Veronica Roth
Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.
— Jenny O'Connell, Plan B
Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, ability, or skill. It will make or break a business, a home, a friendship, an organization. The remarkable thing is I have a choice every day of what my attitude will be. I cannot change my past. I cannot change the actions of others. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can change is attitude. Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
No one is to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing is to disrespect because there is nothing other than you.
— Amit Ray
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
— Harvey Milk
If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
— Karl Lagerfeld
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
— Joseph Conrad
Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.
— Moira Young, Blood Red Road
I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.
— Colleen Houck
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
— Cameron Dokey, Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella
even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.
— Sanober  Khan
Love means never having to be apart
— James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's
I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred close to the time of his death. He was required to leave his plan and vision of the Rocky Mountains and give himself up to face a court of supposed justice.These are his words: 'I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men' (D&C 135:4). That statement of the Prophet teaches us obedience to law and the importance of having a clear conscience toward God and toward our fellowmen. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught these principles--by example.There was to be one great final lesson before his mortal life ended. He was incarcerated in Carthage Jail with his brother Hyrum, with John Taylor, and with Willard Richards. The angry mob stormed the jail; they came up the stairway, blasphemous in their cursing, heavily armed, and began to fire at will. Hyrum was hit and died. John Taylor took several balls of fire within his bosom. The Prophet Joseph, with his pistol in hand, was attempting to defend his life and that of his brethren, and yet he could tell from the pounding on the door that this mob would storm that door and would kill John Taylor and Willard Richards in an attempt to kill him.And so his last great act here upon the earth was to leave the door and lead Willard Richards to safety, throw the gun on the floor, and go to the window, that they might see him, that the attention of this ruthless mob might be focused upon him rather than the others. Joseph Smith gave his life. Willard Richards was spared, and John Taylor recovered from his wounds.'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends' (John 15:13). The Prophet Joseph Smith taught us love--by example.
— Thomas S. Monson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
— Maya Angelou
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return
— Tom Hiddleston
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.
— Neale Donald Walsch
So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else
—  you must have another goal
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...
— Susan B. Anthony
Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!
— C. JoyBell C.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
— James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
— Russell Hoban
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
— Eduardo Galeano
Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
— Stevie Wonder
I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog." This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one.
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.
— C. JoyBell C.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
— Justin Cronin, The Summer Guest
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
— Anatole France
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
— Colette
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Feel the fear and do it anyway!
— Susan  Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
— Paulo Coelho
If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
— Glenn Beck
Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
— India.Arie
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.
— Michelle Paver
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
— Confucius
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.What it do when it pissed off? I ast.Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I am beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
— Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end. but I know it will start.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.
— Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool
You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.
— Amit Ray
Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.
— Amit Ray
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
— Nikola Tesla
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
— Madeleine K. Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir
By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.
— Clarence Darrow, The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of…the feat….You must learn to stop being yourself. That’s where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. That’s how it’s done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground.Like so.
— Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
If we constantly focus only on the stones in our mortal path, we willalmost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by theloving Father who outlined our journey. Each day can bring more joythan sorrow when our mortal and spiritual eyes are open to God'sgoodness. Joy in the gospel is not something that begins only in thenext life. It is our privilege now, this very day. We must never allowour burdens to obscure our blessings. There will always be moreblessings than burdens--even if some days it doesn't seem so. Jesussaid, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have itmore abundantly." Enjoy those blessings right now. They are yours andalways will be.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Live Long and Prosper
— Leonard Nimoy
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
— Ambrose Bierce
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.
— Peter Marshall
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
— Petar Dunov
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to fear; you can rule your world with blood and terror, that's true.But you can't win. And I know that. Weak as I am, with my imperfections and sins, even with all of my failing, I am stronger than you.I will soon have a body. And I have my agency now. I will increase in my faith and knowledge and power. I am not perfect, but I will be, and there's not a thing you can do! I will become like the Father if I follow the Son. You are powerless to stop me. You can threaten and tempt and whisper lies in my ear, but you can't stop me, Satan; I see that so clearly now! I can stop myslef, yes, but only if I follow you.And I reject you temptations. I reject your whispered lies. I reject you, Lucifer, and your entire plan. You have no power to control me. I am in control of myself. And try as you might, you won't control me on earth. We will defeat you in heaven, and we will deafeat you on earth. Here, or the earth, it doesn't matter; I am always stronger than you.
— Chris Stewart
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..
— Jackson Browne
Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
— Brené Brown
I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as a man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds."Job 39:19-25
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.
— Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
What others think about you is none of your business.
— Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.
— Peter C. Newman, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
I Love Loving YouYou are my favorite song; a rhythm of beauty that captures my spirit.You are my favorite poem; an exquisite grouping of ideas set in motion with an unmatched enchanting elegance. You are my best friend; from our laughter to our deep conversations, our moments together are a timeless pleasure.You are my soul mate; a connection so pure, so powerful, that it can only be considered divine. You are my lover; a passionate entwinement, a chorus of ecstasy, and a feeling of complete unity that words could never adequately describe.You are my angel; you remind me of the goodness in this world and inspire me to be the greatest version of myself.You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging. You are my love ~ mi amor; there are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express my love for you.I love loving you.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Why are you being so mean?""Friends tell friends the truth.""yeah, but not to hurt, to help.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
My CreedI do not choose to be a common man,It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,I seek opportunity … not security.I do not wish to be a kept citizen.Humbled and dulled by having theState look after me.I want to take the calculated risk;To dream and to build.To fail and to succeed.I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;I prefer the challenges of lifeTo the guaranteed existence;The thrill of fulfillmentTo the stale calm of Utopia.I will not trade freedom for beneficenceNor my dignity for a handoutI will never cower before any masterNor bend to any threat.It is my heritage to stand erect.Proud and unafraid;To think and act for myself,To enjoy the benefit of my creationsAnd to face the world boldly and say:This, with God’s help, I have doneAll this is what it meansTo be an Entrepreneur.
— Dean Alfange
You can't just wish change
—  you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
— Winston S. Churchill
The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
— Kresley Cole
We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!
— Steve Goodier
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it. 
— Frank Warren, PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God
Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
— Sivananda Saraswati
The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. How do I guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live ach day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
— Paulo Coelho
Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
— Tom Stoppard
What other people think of me is not my business.
— Michael J. Fox
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
— Max Planck, Where is Science Going?
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
— C.S. Lewis
cause when there's life there's still hope
— Michael Morpurgo, War Horse
Life is a barter of choice and consequences.
— Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After
CLAUDIA: I love you as high as the sky and as deep as the sea.MICHAEL: Multiply my love by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how much I feel for you. I love you more.
— Mary Ting, Crossroads
Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins
Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable. It’s a standard to follow your heart, and that’s what I did and if doing that hurt you, then I’m sorry… sorry for coming in your life and wasting your time, for causing you an anguish so great that you could not bear the sight of me. Today, I am proud to stand up and honour myself and proclaim to the world… yes, I loved someone more than myself. I loved someone truly, madly, deeply!
— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently.
— Amit Ray
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity
—  and I'm not sure about the universe.
So many books, so little time.
— Frank Zappa
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
— Steve Martin
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
— Mark Twain
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
— Garrison Keillor
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
— Robert A. Heinlein
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
— Charles M. Schulz
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
— Jim Henson
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
— Paul   Terry
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.
— John Green
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
— Groucho Marx
The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
— Charles Bukowski
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
— Terry Pratchett, Diggers
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
— George Carlin
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
— Benjamin Franklin Wade
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. 
— W.C. Fields
Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
— Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?""Yes," said Harry stiffly."Yes, sir.""There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.
— Cassandra Clare
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
— Markus Herz
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
— Terry Johnson, Insignificance
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
— C.E.M. Joad
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
— Rita Mae Brown
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
— Lemony Snicket
I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
— Terry Pratchett, Jingo
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
— Douglas Adams
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Never memorize something that you can look up.
— Albert Einstein
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
— Groucho Marx
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
— Oscar Levant
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?
— Chris Rock
It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
— Billy Sunday, Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very
— ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?""Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."...I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand.""I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said."And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace."It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.""As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon."I knew we should have left you a rat.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
— Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
The planet is fine. The people are fucked.
— George Carlin
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.""They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down.""Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed."Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code will be enforced. 4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds. 5. Our football team will win the championship this year. 6. We expect more of you here. 7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen. 8. Your schedule was created with you in mind. 9. Your locker combination is private. 10. These will be the years you look back on fondly. TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. You will use algebra in your adult lives. 2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away. 3. Students must stay on campus during lunch. 4. The new text books will arrive any day now. 5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores. 6. We are enforcing the dress code. 7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon. 8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals. 9. There is nothing wrong with summer school. 10. We want to hear what you have to say.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
— Laurence J. Peter
Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot.""Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
— Stephen King, Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay
What the hell is that?" I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
— Bertrand Russell
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
— Mark Twain
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
— W.C. Fields
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
— Mae West
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is a warm puppy.
— Charles M. Schulz
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.""Why?" Isabelle said."So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
— Dr. Seuss
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
— Mark Twain
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Time flies like an arrow
—  fruit flies like a banana.
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
— Oscar Wilde
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
— Winston S. Churchill
You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
— George Burns
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
— Terry Pratchett
Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?""Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?""Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
— Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""I was ninety percent sure.""I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain."What the hell was that for?""The other ten percent.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.
— Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
— Dr. Seuss
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.
— James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
— Steven Wright
Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head."Saintlike," he murmured."What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?""Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
— Mark Twain
Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored."In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."" Simon demanded, looking shaken."Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.""I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing.""Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Don't Panic.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy