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Last nightthe rainspoke to meslowly, saying, what joyto come fallingout of the brisk cloud, to be happy againin a new wayon the earth! That’s what it saidas it dropped, smelling of iron, and vanishedlike a dream of the oceaninto the branchesand the grass below.Then it was over.The sky cleared.I was standingunder a tree.The tree was a treewith happy leaves, and I was myself, and there were stars in the skythat were also themselvesat the momentat which momentmy right handwas holding my left handwhich was holding the treewhich was filled with starsand the soft rain –imagine! imagine! the long and wondrous journeysstill to be ours.
— Mary Oliver
Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook
— Nizar Qabbani
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
— Francis of Assisi
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
— Isaac Asimov
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
— Mary Oliver
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
— Alexander Graham Bell
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
— Richard Bach, One
God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.
— Fanny J. Crosby
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
She is delightfully chaotic
—  a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.
Patience ensures victory.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Now don't you understand man universal lawWhat you throw out comes back to you, starNever underestimate those who you scarCause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard
— Lauryn Hill
a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
— Gautama Buddha
Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative.
— Ron Currie Jr., Everything Matters!
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
To be deeply loved, means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities... hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling, than complete love, it's worth the risk... reach for it.
— Jaeda DeWalt
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
— Pete Wentz
I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky. 
— R. Kelly
Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.A first glanceA first smileA first kissA first fall…(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.)You were wearing these during one of those moments.One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you.The way you gave me butterflies that morningHad absolutely nothing to do with anyone else,and everything to do with you.I was falling in love with you that morningbecause of you.(I take the next item out of the satchel. When I pull it out and look up, she brings her hands to her mouth in shock.)This ugly little gnomeWith his smug little grin…He's the reason I had an excuse to invite you into my house.Into my life.You took a lot of aggression out on him over those next few months.I would watch from my window as you would kick him over every time you walked by him.Poor little guy.You were so tenacious.That feisty, aggressive, strong-willed side of you….The side of you that refused to take crap from this concrete gnome?The side of you that refused to take crap from me?I fell in love with that side of youbecause of you.(I set the gnome down on the stage and grab the CD)This is your favorite CD‘Layken’s shit.’Although now I know you intended for shit to be possessive, rather than descriptive.The banjo started playing through the speakers of your carand I immediately recognized my favorite band.Then when I realized it was your favorite band, too?The fact that these same lyrics inspired both of us?I fell in love with that about you.That had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.I fell in love with that about youbecause of you.(I take a slip of paper out of the satchel and hold it up. When I look at her, I see Eddie slide her a napkin. I can’t tell from up here, but that can only mean she’s crying.)This is a receipt I kept.Only because the item I purchased that night was on the verge of ridiculous.Chocolate milk on the rocks? Who orders that?You were different, and you didn’t care.You were being you.A piece of me fell in love with you at that moment,because of you.This? (I hold up another sheet of paper.)This I didn’t really like so much.It’s the poem you wrote about me.The one you titled 'mean?'I don’t think I ever told you…but you made a zero.And then I kept itto remind myself of all the things I never want to be to you.(I pull her shirt from my bag. When I hold it into the light, I sigh into the microphone.)This is that ugly shirt you wear.It doesn’t really have anything to do with why I fell in love with you.I just saw it at your house and thought I’d steal it.
— Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
— Edmund Burke
I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.
— Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. 
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy.But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it.
— Cameron Dokey, Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
— Spencer W. Kimball
No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away. Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered. She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever.
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.
— L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. 
— Jimmy Buffett
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
— Norman Vincent Peale
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
— Leo Buscaglia
I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.
— Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
— Lao Tzu
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
— Bruce Lee
Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".
— Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad
Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.
— Rudyard Kipling
If you are her man, she will talk to you until there justaren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’reat rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold youin her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’reup. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I meanreally loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty,encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’snot so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, evenwhen you’re not saying anything worth listening to.
— Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.
— Alex   Sanchez
just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
— Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words
Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
I change the world, the world changes me.
— Libba Bray
Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
— Tyler Kent White
She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
— Robert M. Drake
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
— Julie Garwood, The Prize
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
— John F. Kennedy
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
— Mother Teresa
My sun sets to rise again.
— Robert Browning
Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Pressure makes diamonds
— George S. Patton Jr.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
If you feel far from God, guess who moved?
— Robin Jones Gunn, Surprise Endings
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
— Victor Hugo
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
— Sylvia Plath
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
— Karen Blixen
The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.
— Casi McLean
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
— Kahlil Gibran
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
— C.G. Jung
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
— Osho
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,Only what’s done for Christ will last.
— C.T. Studd
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
— Bruce Lee
Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Don't count your owls before they are delivered.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration comes of working every day.
— Charles Baudelaire
In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
— Bertrand Russell
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
— Robert Bresson
Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy
— Amit Ray
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beannacht / BlessingOn the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you.And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you,may a flock of colours,indigo, red, green,and azure bluecome to awaken in youa meadow of delight.When the canvas fraysin the currach of thoughtand a stain of oceanblackens beneath you,may there come across the watersa path of yellow moonlightto bring you safely home.May the nourishment of the earth be yours,may the clarity of light be yours,may the fluency of the ocean be yours,may the protection of the ancestors be yours.And so may a slowwind work these wordsof love around you,an invisible cloakto mind your life.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
— Joyce Carol Oates
[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be...Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
— David Mitchell, number9dream
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
— Jane Hamilton
There is no illusion greater than fear.
— Lao Tzu
Hope springs forever.
— J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
I have a dream.” “Is your dream very big?” “No.” “Well is it very grand?” “Not either.” “Neither?” “Neither.” “What is it then?” “It is very shiny.
— C. JoyBell C.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.
— Forrest Curran
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
— Walter Mosley
And...I think that's what life is all about, actually,about children and flowers.
— Audrey Hepburn
One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.
— Forrest Curran
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments of splendor and beauty. Tattoo in an acknowledgment and tribute to home, and tattooing your beliefs that define who you are. Whether we intended to or not, every moment of our lives are tattooed to our heart.
— Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.
— Robert M. Drake
Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored. Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just its imprints, mere illusions of its existence. Beauty cannot be described by words; it cannot be written or read about. There are no suitable words in all the languages of the world, ancient or modern to hold it between a paper and a pen or a script and an eye. Beauty can only be experienced from far, its delightful aroma can only be tasted through one’s eyes and its pleasurable sight can only be felt from the soul.Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words.
— Faraaz Kazi
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
— Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
— Viggo Mortensen
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
— Werner Herzog
While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story—their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done.
— Alyson Noel, Shadowland
Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
— Simone de Beauvoir
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;	Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear
— Joseph Conrad
Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for ages, has superstitiously believed in what he calls a God does not prove at all that his theory has been right. There have been many gods – all makeshifts, born of inability to fathom the deep fundamental truth. There must be something at the bottom of existence, and man, in ignorance, being unable to discover what it is through reason, because his reason has been so imperfect, undeveloped, has used, instead, imagination, and created figments, of one kind or another, which, according to the country he was born in, the suggestions of his environment, satisfied him for the time being. Not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved. We accept no ordinary scientific fact without the final proof; why should we, then, be satisfied in this most mighty of all matters, with a mere theory?Destruction of false theories will not decrease the sum of human happiness in future, any more than it has in the past... The days of miracles have passed. I do not believe, of course, that there was ever any day of actual miracles. I cannot understand that there were ever any miracles at all. My guide must be my reason, and at thought of miracles my reason is rebellious. Personally, I do not believe that Christ laid claim to doing miracles, or asserted that he had miraculous power...Our intelligence is the aggregate intelligence of the cells which make us up. There is no soul, distinct from mind, and what we speak of as the mind is just the aggregate intelligence of cells. It is fallacious to declare that we have souls apart from animal intelligence, apart from brains. It is the brain that keeps us going. There is nothing beyond that.Life goes on endlessly, but no more in human beings than in other animals, or, for that matter, than in vegetables. Life, collectively, must be immortal, human beings, individually, cannot be, as I see it, for they are not the individuals – they are mere aggregates of cells.There is no supernatural. We are continually learning new things. There are powers within us which have not yet been developed and they will develop. We shall learn things of ourselves, which will be full of wonders, but none of them will be beyond the natural.]
— Thomas A. Edison
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
— Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Chronicle
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
— Mother Teresa
Music, my rampart and my only one.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
— Sarah McLachlan
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
— Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven
Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?
— Violet Weingarten
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently
—  it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
— T.S. Eliot
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
— John Wooden
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.
— J.K. Rowling
It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
kenangan itu cuma hantu di sudut pikir. selama kita diam dan ngga berbuat apa-apa, selamanya dia tetap jadi hantu, ngga akan pernah jadi kenyataan.
— Dee Lestari
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
feminism is for everybody
— bell hooks
What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
— Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
— Miguel Ruiz
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.
— Terry Goodkind
You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.
— Oprah Winfrey
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
— Greg Kincaid
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
— Abraham Lincoln
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
— Neal A. Maxwell
Exuberance is beauty.
— William Blake
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
— Karen Blixen
Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads.Now, your Honor, you have been a boy; I have been a boy. And we have known other boys. The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.Is it within the realm of your imagination that a boy who was right, with all the prospects of life before him, who could choose what he wanted, without the slightest reason in the world would lure a young companion to his death, and take his place in the shadow of the gallows?...No one who has the process of reasoning could doubt that a boy who would do that is not right.How insane they are I care not, whether medically or legally. They did not reason; they could not reason; they committed the most foolish, most unprovoked, most purposeless, most causeless act that any two boys ever committed, and they put themselves where the rope is dangling above their heads....Why did they kill little Bobby Franks?Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man something slipped, and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood.. . . I know, Your Honor, that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that a pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without disturbing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame. I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I have not the infinite wisdom that can fathom it, neither has any other human brain
— Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
— Paulo Coelho
In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
— Anthony Robbins
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!”“Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!”“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
When the wind blows,the grass bends.
— Confucius, The Analects
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
— Horace Mann
Time to toss the dice
— Robert Jordan
It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine.
— Sarah Dessen, That Summer
Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Tomorrow is a new day
—  begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges
I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. 
— Rob Bell
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
— Audrey Hepburn
But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,and I have nothing else to do,I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh
— A.A. Milne
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
— Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.
— Julia L. Roberts
Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Live your life, no matter what that life is.
— Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!
— John Bytheway
Survivors can't always choose their methods.
— Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
— Bill Cosby
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
— Lao Tzu
What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.
— Alex   Sanchez, The God Box
If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.
— Chris Hadfield
Warriors of light always have a certain gleam in their eyes.They are of this world, they are part of the lives of others, and they set out on their journey with no saddlebags and no sandals. They are often cowardly. They do not always make the right decisions.They suffer over the most trivial things, they have mean thoughts, and sometimes believe that they are incapable of growing. They frequently deem themselves unworthy of any blessing or miracle.They are not always quite sure what they are doing here. They spend many sleepless nights, believing that their lives have no meaning.That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask themselves questions. Because they are looking for a reason - and are sure to find it.
— Paulo Coelho
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
— Adolf Hitler
Man is, that he may have Joy.
— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.
— C. JoyBell C.
Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared
— Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
Too many locks, not enough keys.
— Sarah Dessen
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
— William Wordsworth
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
— Najwa Zebian
I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Tough times never last. Tough people do
— Robert H. Schuller
For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness – that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers as belongers, perhaps; that, in sum, the phenomenon may be as “natural” a manifestation of human nature as its opposite, but one that has been mostly frustrated, throughout human history, by lack of opportunity. And not only by that: for those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainly, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we pretend to be motivated by loyalties and solidarities we do not really feel, we hide our secret identities beneath the false skins of those identities which bear the belongers’ seal of approval. But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds (because we are all alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves), we soar, we fly, we flee. And in the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the non-belongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.What we forbid ourselves we pay good money to watch, in a playhouse or a movie theater, or to read about between the secret covers of a book. Our libraries, our palaces of entertainment tell the truth. The tramp, the assassin, the rebel, the thief, the mutant, the outcast, the delinquent, the devil, the sinner, the traveler, the gangster, the runner, the mask: if we did not recognize in them our least-fulfilled needs, we would not invent them over and over again, in every place, in every language, in every time.
— Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
— Anaïs Nin
Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
— Sheryl Crow
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones