I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile. - Loretta Ellsworth, In a Heartbeat

You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave? - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do. - Gordon B. Hinckley

I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try. - Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

Happiness is the china shop love is the bull. - H.L. Mencken

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. - Marquis de Sade, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. - Mark Twain

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. - Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. - Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe

Life is dear to every living thing - the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations. - Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. - Anaïs Nin

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. - Asa Don Brown

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves. - Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian. - Mahatma Gandhi

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein

The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost