Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. - Rick Aster, Fear of Nothing

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up. - Mitch Albom, For One More Day

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground. - Andrea Gibson

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

The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—Psychotherapist from Type 1 Sociopath - P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People

Тo me, the future doesn’t seem real. It’s just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don’t have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at eight hundred miles per hour. - Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Half the night I waste in sighs,Half in dreams I sorrow afterThe delight of early skies;In a wakeful dose I sorrowFor the hand, the lips, the eyes,For the meeting of the morrow,The delight of happy laughter,The delight of low replies. - Alfred Tennyson, Maud, and other poems

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? - Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. - Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Is it really you this time, Kells?”“Well, I’m no maggoty corpse, if that’s what you mean.”He grinned. “That’s a relief. No maggoty corpse would be that sarcastic. - Colleen Houck

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. Constantly then give to thyself this retreat, and renew thyself; and let thy principles be brief and fundamental, which, as soon as thou shalt recur to them, will be sufficient to cleanse the soul completely, and to send thee back free from all discontent with the things to which thou returnest. For with what art thou discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to thy mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily; and consider how many already, after mutual enmity, suspicion, hatred, and fighting, have been stretched dead, reduced to ashes; and be quiet at last.- But perhaps thou art dissatisfied with that which is assigned to thee out of the universe.- Recall to thy recollection this alternative; either there is providence or atoms, fortuitous concurrence of things; or remember the arguments by which it has been proved that the world is a kind of political community, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps corporeal things will still fasten upon thee.- Consider then further that the mind mingles not with the breath, whether moving gently or violently, when it has once drawn itself apart and discovered its own power, and think also of all that thou hast heard and assented to about pain and pleasure, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps the desire of the thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed, and be quiet at last. For the whole earth is a point, and how small a nook in it is this thy dwelling, and how few are there in it, and what kind of people are they who will praise thee. - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness - they don’t need the approval of others.

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury. - Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect - Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice! - Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night