Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling - Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? - Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. - Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend. - Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Before you hate something you should try to understand it. - Martha Grimes, Dakota

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. - Nicole Krauss

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. - Albert Camus

Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination. - Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. - Red Haircrow

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.So that was that. We were finally, finally over.I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'I was the one to look away first. - Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. - Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! - Bill Watterson, Something Under the Bed is Drooling: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? - Socrates

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. - Helen Keller

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. - Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

I have given my word that only death will take me from you. - Philippa Gregory

The dead are way more organized than the living. - China Miéville, Un Lun Dun