In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. - Theodore Roosevelt

Drualt took Freya's warm hand,Her strong hand,Her sword hand,And pressed it to his lips,Pressed it to his heart.Come with me,' he said.Come with me to battle,My love. Tarry at my side.Stay with meWhen battle is done.Tarry at my side.Laugh with me,And walk with meThe long, long way.Tarry with me,My love, at my side. - Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. - Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

Don't give up the fight,Stand up for your rights. - Bob Marley

This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit.If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV.If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.Stop over-analysing, life is simple.All emotions are beautiful.When you eat, appreciate every last bite.Life is simple.Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences.Ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them.Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.Some opportunities only come once, seize them.Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.Life is short, live your dream and wear your passion. - Holstee Manifesto, The Wedding Day

We are constantly invited to be what we are. - Henry David Thoreau

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future - they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? - Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. - Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not. - Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. - Richard Bach

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

There is no illusion greater than fear. - Lao Tzu

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. - Michel Legrand

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy. - Petar Dunov

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live - Lin Yutang

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. - Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation - Nelson Mandela