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

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future. - Jane Green, Bookends

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. - Martin Luther King Jr.

If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call. - Greg Behrendt

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. - E.E. Cummings

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know. - Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight. - Stephen King, The Gunslinger

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze. - John Green, Looking for Alaska

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. - RuPaul

I do like the world quite a lot. - Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. - Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen. - Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening. - Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. - Paulo Coelho, Maktub

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We don't receive wisdom - we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.