Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. - Bruce Lee

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W.C. Fields

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry. - David Nicholls, One Day

As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's.I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses.I'm going to clean your stables. Won't that be great?Come inside! Eat you! Tasty half-blood!Usually this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, not this time.Poseidon can come in, too! We will eat you both! Seafood! The other horses chimed in as they waded through the field. - Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever. - Coco J. Ginger

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. - Diane Von Furstenberg

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Bertrand Russell

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of. - Colleen Houck

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! - Jalaluddin Rumi

Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got. - Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others. - Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this. - Deb Caletti, Stay

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. - J.K. Rowling

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet? - Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. - Helen Keller

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. - Finnick Odair Mockingjay

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. - Federico García Lorca