A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. - Mark Twain

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop! - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

I am the captain of my soul. - Nelson Mandela

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head. - Morrissey

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be. - Langston Hughes

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you - Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him. - Lauren Oliver, Delirium

St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there. - Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. - Carroll Bryant

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. - Jalaluddin Rumi

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. - Eric Roth

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. - C. JoyBell C.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love. - Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of heaven’s hand. Those who feel no need for mercy usually never seek it and almost never bestow it. Those who have never had a heartache or a weakness or felt lonely or forsaken never have had to cry unto heaven for relief of such personal pain. Surely it is better to find the goodness of God and the grace of Christ, even at the price of despair, than to risk living our lives in a moral or material complacency that has never felt any need for faith or forgiveness, any need for redemption or relief. - Jeffery R. Holland