Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. - Wendy Wasserstein

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground. - Andrea Gibson

Then why are you here?” Emma demanded. “Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don’t date trees.”“I am not a tree.” Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly. - Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts! - C. JoyBell C.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. - Jimi Hendrix

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle - Steve Jobs

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for. - Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

A woman should soften but not weaken a man. - Sigmund Freud

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. - Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

The shortest distance between two people is a smile. - Victor Borge

If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen. - Roy T. Bennett

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. - Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian. - Mahatma Gandhi