It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. - James Gordon

I would love to slap you right now, but I’m currently wielding a nine pound ball and I’m afraid that would be called murder. - Sara Wolf, Lovely Vicious

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. - John Green, Looking for Alaska

The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to. - Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest. - Louise Candlish, Before We Say Goodbye

I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it. - Pablo Neruda, Love Poems

Philosophy is not a spectator sport. - Nigel Warburton, Philosophy

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. - Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. - Dalai Lama XIV

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. - C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

AnatasiaYou Are My More My Love, My LifeChristian - E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

Change course, but don’t give up. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. - Kiera Cass, The Selection

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love... - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it. - Alexandra Potter, You're The One That I Don't Want

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. - Lyndon B. Johnson

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine. - Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now - Edna St. Vincent Millay