Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. - Ronald Reagan

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. - Audrey Hepburn

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown. - Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. - Nelson Mandela

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. - Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is? - Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.(Matthew 5:14, The Message) - Anonymous, The Message Remix

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. - Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. - Jean Kerr

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. - Libba Bray

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Body is a home, a prison and a grave. - James Runcie, The Colour Of Heaven

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. - Brian Tracy

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got? - Henry Rollins

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose. - Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps