Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? - Susan Fletcher, Eve Green

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. - Epictetus

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts - it is a sword that kills.

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential. - Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came. - Jonathan Antin

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else. - Albert Einstein

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. - Jane Austen, Persuasion

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years. - Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? - John Keats, Letters of John Keats

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise. - Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat. - Brian Andreas

He was a writer and words were his weapons. - Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy - Kahlil Gibran

But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you. - Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. - Amy Tan

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice. - James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports