When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse. - Robert Lynn Asprin

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable. - Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. - Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. - Woody Allen

Cats don't need to be possessed - they're evil on their own.

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere - Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. - Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry what people are saying. - Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life. - Steve Maraboli

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. - Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for. - Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. - Françoise Sagan

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. - Christopher Moore

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire) - Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. - Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals

I felt his other hand sear hot against my cheek. He bent his head, and in a voice that Jack couldn’t hear, said, “When you came down the stairs, and fell into me, that was the moment.” Then his lips pressed against mine. - Sarah Alderson, Hunting Lila

We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality. - James S. Kunen, The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary