Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland) - Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. - Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable! - Jillian Michaels
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. - Edgar Allan Poe, Ne Pariez Jamais Votre Tête Au Diable Et Autres Contes Non Traduits Par Baudelaire
She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.-Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
People are the most difficult thing in the world to change - Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. - Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. - Ronald Reagan
I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum - Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. - Herman Wouk
People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness. - Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. - Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me! - Bill Watterson
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. - Mark Twain, Notebook
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. - Frank Zappa
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. - C. JoyBell C.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. - Marc Riboud
Lead me not into temptation - I can find the way myself.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey