Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. - Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph. - Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. - Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. - Bob Marley

What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, butalso by, as I once believed, a true friend. - Danka V., The Unchosen Life

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of. - J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. - Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart

Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. - Maya Angelou

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for. - Cassandra Clare

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. - Jim Butcher, Changes

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. - Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that. - Garrison Keillor, Pontoon

To love is to recognize yourself in another. - Eckhart Tolle

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new. - Casi McLean