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

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you. - Leo Buscaglia

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them? - Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. - Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw. - Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that. - Samuel Beckett

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good. - Laura Cereta, Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. - Gautama Buddha

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. - Patrick Ness, More Than This

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive. - James Patterson, Angel

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. - Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to beloved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannotcleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have neverloved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughtstoo much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love.But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part. - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. - Groucho Marx

Trust men and they will be true to you - treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal. - Lemony Snicket

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. - Aldous Huxley