Who knows how to make love stay?1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning. - Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it. - Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions. - Criss Jami, Killosophy

Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers. - Kobayashi Issa

I shrug, trapped. I don’t want to lose him. In spite of all his demands, his need to control, his scary vices. I have never felt as alive as I do now. It’s a thrill to be sitting here beside him. He’s so unpredictable, sexy, smart, and funny. But hismoods… oh – and he wants to hurt me. He says he’ll think about my reservations, but it still scares me. I close my eyes. What can I say? Deep down I would just like more, more affection, more playful Christian, more… love. - E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.And this was her penance.Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead. - Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. - bell hooks

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? - Charles M. Schulz

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colin. Need I say more? - Chris Rock

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count! - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait. - Jess C. Scott, The Intern

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! - Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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

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

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

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

Life is a book. We fill the pages. - Victoria Valentine

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise. - Alice Walker