A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right. - Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
When you love someone you let them take care of you. - Jodi Picoult
Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love. - Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone,that will be his best and only bulwark. - Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child. - Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. - C.S. Lewis
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. - Kevin Alan Lee, The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear. - L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) - William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner - nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Imagine others complexly. - John Green, Paper Towns
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. - Stefan Molyneux
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us. - Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is. - Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph. - Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. - Diane Von Furstenberg
NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?! - John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse. - Dave Barry