There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

After all, my erstwhile dear,My no longer cherished,Need we say it was not love,Just because it perished? - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul. - Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled. - Kiera Cass, The Selection

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know. - Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. - Nikki Giovanni

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! - Vicki Corona, Tahitian Choreographies: Intermediate to Advanced Level Female Instruction

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts. - Tennessee Williams

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. - Gustave Flaubert

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? - Stephen King, The Long Walk

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing. - Albert Camus, The Stranger

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen - René Descartes, The Principles of Philosophy

Astonishment is the root of philosophy. - Paul Tillich

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords. - George Carlin