I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today. - Gayle Forman, Where She Went

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. - Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Dead and the Gone

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated. - Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them. - Jalaluddin Rumi

belief is the death of intelligence. - Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. - Scott Adams

You are -- your life, and nothing else. - Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. - Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be. - Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. - Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought. - Don DeLillo

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive. - James Patterson, Angel

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? - Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

I've often thought that there isn't any I at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. - Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. - P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. - Haruki Murakami

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. - Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue