One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him. - Immanuel Kant

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice - Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it. - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it - John Keats

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

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . - Ali Shariati

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. - Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone. - Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. - Roy T. Bennett

I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave. - Thomas Hardy

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them. - Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? - Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau Journal 9

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.-Aphrodite - Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

There are never enough 'I love you's. - Lenny Bruce

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. - Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant. - Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

I don't want to know about love.''But you should, my child. You need to know about love. The things people will do for love. All truths come down to love, do they not? One way or another, they do. See, there is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.' She sat up a little straighter. 'Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it’s right or wrong. - Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood