The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. - John Paul II, Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. - Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too. - Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

After all this time?Always... - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam

It’s your life - you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes. - Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River

Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too? - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. - Roy T. Bennett

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,Robin’s lost in play,But the kiss in Colin’s eyesHaunts me night and day. - Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems

You have my whole heart. You always did. - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. - Jodi Picoult

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. - Douglas Pagels

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. - Mark Twain

Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. begun. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine. - Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. - Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters