No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful. - Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

Wow. I didn’t think it was possible for him to look any more intoxicating than he already did. But a leather clad Ren standing next to the gorgeous racing motorcycle holding his helmet made my brain go numb. I had kind of a this-is-your-brain-on-drugs moment, only mine was more like a this-is-your-brain-on-seeing-Ren-in-tight-leather moment. If they’d been smart, the Ducati Company should have used him in a commercial and given him the bike for free. - Colleen Houck

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran, The Wanderer

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently - it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. - Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. - Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. - Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone. - L.M. Montgomery

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences - Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday, Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us. - Thomas Aquinas

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman, Coraline

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there. - Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. - Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage. - Criss Jami, Healology

Disappointment came to me,and booted me,and bruised and hurt me,but that's how people grow up. - Morrissey

We all give up great expectations along the way. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game