One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects. - Marty Rubin

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. - Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you. - Pope Benedict XVI

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Lou Holtz

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

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

I've been in love with you since you helped me bury that spider in my garden, and you sang with me like we were singing “Amazing Grace” instead of “The Itsy, Bitsy Spider.” I've loved you since you quoted Hamlet like you understood him, since you said you loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn't be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation. I read and re-read your letters to Rita because I felt like you'd opened up a little window into your soul, and the light was pouring out with every word. They weren't even for me, but it didn't matter. I loved every word, every thought, and I loved you . . . so much. - Amy Harmon, Making Faces

Look after my heart - I've left it with you. - Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

Peace begins with a smile.. - Mother Teresa

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas. - Karl Marx, The German Ideology

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. - Anaïs Nin

Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are. - Roy T. Bennett

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of. - Robert M. Drake

Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth. - Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. - Christopher Moore

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it. - Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all. - Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

When the heart is dry the eye is dry. - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - anthology

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit - Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time