The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

To perceive is to suffer. - Aristotle

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

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself. - Sanober Khan

I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem! - Jerry Scott

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. - Amy Sedaris, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self imposed limits. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. - Rollo May

You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?” I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.” He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love. - Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then -- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become ourselves. - Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that. - Garrison Keillor, Pontoon

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. - Nora Ephron

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. - Joyce Carol Oates

By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams. - Jon Stewart

Stop giving your life away to other people. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen. - Roy T. Bennett

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires - Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life - you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis

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