Violence begins with the fork. - Mahatma Gandhi

Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. - Dan Howell

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people. - Kelly Bryson, Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal. - Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. - Scott Adams

I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. - Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

She seemed to be a nice person, too, instead of a homicidal bitch like his former wife. Otherwise, the world should fear. When Mencheres fell for a woman, he fell hard. If Kira asked for her own continent as a birthday present, Mencheres would probably have one conquered for her before she blew out her candles. - Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his. - Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

Everything not forbidden is compulsory - T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his. - Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
 - Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today. - Barbara Johnson

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for. - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

You will make all kinds of mistakes - but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce! - Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons