Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen. - Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. - Bill Gates

It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. - Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them. - Anthony Robbins

It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves. - Richelle Mead, Frostbite

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books? - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. - Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation. - Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else - Benny Bellamacina

Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Adventures are never fun while you're having them. - C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. - Lauren Oliver, Delirium

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. - Maya Angelou

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand? - James Patterson, Angel

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have. - Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence