Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. - Seneca, Natural Questions

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. - Drew Carey

The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever. - Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall. - Doug Fetherling

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. - Seneca

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said. - Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart. - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”Mom: “Television is a passivity.”Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. - J. Richard Lessor

If you're a bird... I'm a bird... - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune - to lose both looks like carelessness.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red Headed League

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. - Earl Nightingale

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. - Gautama Buddha

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. - Veronica Roth

I know how to use a fellytone now. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

You kick ass Sam. And don't forget it - Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope. - Emily Maguire, Taming the Beast

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