How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. - Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

You fuck - you ate my cat! - Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good. - Jim Butcher, White Night

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated. - Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

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

Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person. - C. JoyBell C.

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer. - Pete Hamill

We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie - Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason - Jerry Seinfeld

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken. - Robert M. Drake

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

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

There were no windows in my bedroom, so I had to sit up and read my clock to figure out how angry I should be at my visitor. Eight A.M. I hated whoever woke me up. Had they come an hour earlier, I would have also hated their families and any household pets. - Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. - Walt Disney Company

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die? - Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

the time is always right to do the right thing - Martin Luther King Jr.