When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Winston S. Churchill

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. - Robert Benchley

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. - Sarah Kay

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou

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

No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today. - Sandy Brewer, Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. - John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

love is thicker than forgetmore thinner than recallmore seldom than a wave is wetmore frequent than to failit is most mad and moonlyand less it shall unbethan all the sea which onlyis deeper than the sealove is less always than to winless never than aliveless bigger than the least beginless littler than forgiveit is most sane and sunlyand more it cannot diethan all the sky which onlyis higher than the sky - E.E. Cummings

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. - Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. - Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy? - Anne Frank

sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen. - Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty. - P.G. Wodehouse, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. - Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. - George Orwell, Animal Farm

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man. - Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Henry David Thoreau

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go - Tony Parsons, Man and Boy