Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it. - J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. - David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive. - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love. - Heather Dixon, Entwined

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. - Stephen King, The Stand

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine. - Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned. - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me.” “Me, too,” he breathes. “My life would be empty without you. I love you so much. - E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough. - Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God. - Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other. - Virginia Satir

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. - Charles Dickens

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. - François de La Rochefoucauld

To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced. - Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein