The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs.“Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you. - Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? - Bill Watterson

Astonishment is the root of philosophy. - Paul Tillich

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine - Jack Johnson

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. - Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia

Okay, then I’ll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I’m only content when you’re near. My whole purpose is to be what you need me to be. It’s not poetry, but it’s from my heart. Will that do? - Colleen Houck

Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings? - D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems

I sustain myself with the love of family. - Maya Angelou

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it. - Lauren Oliver, Requiem

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in! - C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live. - Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. - Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Björk

He is the cheese to my macaroni. - Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”Mom: “Television is a passivity.”Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. - Romain Rolland

Desire is half of life - indifference is half of death.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. - Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation