I change the world, the world changes me. - Libba Bray

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person. - C. JoyBell C.

Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves. - Robert M. Drake

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures. - Frank Herbert

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? - Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract. - Ian McEwan, Atonement

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two. - Cassandra Clare

To travel is to live. - Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. - Narcotics Anonymous

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247) - Gregory Bassham, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles

Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. - Luci Swindoll, I Married Adventure: Looking at Life Through the Lens of Possibility

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves. - Natsuki Takaya

God save us from religion. - David Eddings

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be. - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. - Criss Jami, Killosophy

Love.Because of you, in gardens of blossomingFlowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.I have forgotten your face, I no longerRemember your hands; how did your lipsFeel on mine?Because of you, I love the white statuesDrowsing in the parks, the white statues thatHave neither voice nor sight.I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;I have forgotten your eyes.Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound toMy vague memory of you. I live with painThat is like a wound; if you touch me, you willMake to me an irreperable harm.Your caresses enfold me, like climbingVines on melancholy walls.I have forgotten your love, yet I seem toGlimpse you in every window.Because of you, the heady perfumes ofSummer pain me; because of you, I againSeek out the signs that precipitate desires:Shooting stars, falling objects. - Pablo Neruda

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do. - Greta Garbo