Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. - Scott Adams

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle! - Lauren Myracle, ttfn

It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. - John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs. - Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us. - Christopher Paolini, Eldest

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas A. Edison

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her - Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work. - Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind - it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

Lead me not into temptation - I can find the way myself.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. - J. E. McCulloch

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. - Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature. - Marsilio Ficino

I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax. - Jim Butcher, Small Favor

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds. - Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life? - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife