There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Bertrand Russell

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. - Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity. - Jean-Paul Sartre

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. - Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her. - Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Albert Einstein

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. - W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. - Jim Morrison

Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile. - Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. - Mickey Rivers

We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance. - Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave. - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know? - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates. - Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Our life is made by the death of others. - Leonardo da Vinci

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar