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

Those who do not weep, do not see. - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas. - Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call. - Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.Bones to Gregor - Jeaniene Frost, Destined for an Early Grave

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive. - Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. - Joan Erickson

The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE. - Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. - Julie de Lespinasse

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. - Michael Grant, Gone

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental. - Ogden Nash

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. - Rabindranath Tagore

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. - Morrissey

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go - Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to.Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor.Because they never understand us, but they never give up.Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves.Because they come from little boys.Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when it comes to women.Because they are incredible lovers and never rest until we’re happy.Because they elevate sports to religion.Because they’re never afraid of the dark.Because they don’t care how they look or if they age.Because they persevere in making and repairing things beyond their abilities, with the naïve self-assurance of the teenage boy who knew everything.Because they never wear or dream of wearing high heels.Because they’re always ready for sex.Because they’re like pomegranates: lots of inedible parts, but the juicy seeds are incredibly tasty and succulent and usually exceed your expectations.Because they’re afraid to go bald.Because you always know what they think and they always mean what they say.Because they love machines, tools, and implements with the same ferocity women love jewelry.Because they go to great lengths to hide, unsuccessfully, that they are frail and human.Because they either speak too much or not at all to that end.Because they always finish the food on their plate.Because they are brave in front of insects and mice.Because a well-spoken four-year old girl can reduce them to silence, and a beautiful 25-year old can reduce them to slobbering idiots.Because they want to be either omnivorous or ascetic, warriors or lovers, artists or generals, but nothing in-between.Because for them there’s no such thing as too much adrenaline.Because when all is said and done, they can’t live without us, no matter how hard they try.Because they’re truly as simple as they claim to be.Because they love extremes and when they go to extremes, we’re there to catch them.Because they are tender they when they cry, and how seldom they do it.Because what they lack in talk, they tend to make up for in action.Because they make excellent companions when driving through rough neighborhoods or walking past dark alleys.Because they really love their moms, and they remind us of our dads.Because they never care what their horoscope, their mother-in-law, nor the neighbors say.Because they don’t lie about their age, their weight, or their clothing size.Because they have an uncanny ability to look deeply into our eyes and connect with our heart, even when we don’t want them to.Because when we say “I love you” they ask for an explanation. - Paulo Coelho

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. - Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? - Socrates

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