I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. - Robert E. Lee

Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I - Hayley Williams

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. - Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. - Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore

It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be. - Jaeda DeWalt

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you. - Zelda Fitzgerald

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory - Paulo Coelho, Aleph

The only safe thing is to take a chance. - Elaine May

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Plans are invitation to disappointment. - Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit. - Andrew Matthews

You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something. - Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. - Taylor Swift

I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice. - Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. - Stephen King, Under the Dome