Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. - Mae West

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise. - Anne Fortier, Juliet

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will have toshow me said the spideri scurry aroundgutters and sewersand garbage canssaid the fly and gatherup the germs oftyphoid influenzaand pneumonia on my feetand wingsthen i carry these germsinto households of menand give them diseasesall the people whohave lived the rightsort of life recoverfrom the diseasesand the old soaks whohave weakened their systemswith liquor and iniquitysuccumb it is my missionto help rid the worldof these wicked personsi am a vessel of righteousnessscattering seeds of justiceand serving the noblest usesit is true said the spiderthat you are moreuseful in a ploddingmaterial sort of waythan i am but i do notserve the utilitarian deitiesi serve the gods of beautylook at the gossamer websi weave they float in the sunlike filaments of songif you get what i meani do not work at anythingi play all the timei am busy with the stuffof enchantment and the materialsof fairyland my workstranscend utilityi am the artista creator and demi godit is ridiculous to supposethat i should be deniedthe food i need in orderto continue to createbeauty i tell youplainly mister fly it is alldamned nonsense for that foodto rear up on its hind legsand say it should not be eatenyou have convinced mesaid the fly say no moreand shutting all his eyeshe prepared himself for dinnerand yet he said i couldhave made out a casefor myself too if i hadhad a better line of talkof course you could said the spiderclutching a sirloin from himbut the end would have beenjust the same if neither ofus had spoken at allboss i am afraid that whatthe spider said is trueand it gives me to thinkfuriously upon the futilityof literaturearchy - Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel

Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. He was Nico's favorite game, Mythomagic, brought to life.Jason saw the moment when Percy returned and told Nico that Bianca was dead. Nico had screamed and called him a liar. He'd felt betrayed, but still... when the skeleton warriors attacked, he couldn't let them harm Percy. Nico had called on the earth to swallow them up, and then he'd run away- terrified of his own powers, and his own emotions. - Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology. - Stefan Molyneux

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail. - Jennifer Salaiz

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. - David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. - Marilyn Monroe

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time. - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. - Tana French, In the Woods

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. - Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. - Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive? - Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. - Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass