"Live your life so that when you wake up tomorrow, you are exactly where you want to be."
-Unknown

"What happens to people who open their hearts?"
"They get better."
-Unknown

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost...to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If one places himself number one in his heart then he can only see himself. But by stepping back, what you see is not yourself but others. People learn and grow until they die."
- Queen to Chaegyung, Goong

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned."
→ William Congreve

(Never knew the author nor the first part of this quote.)

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?"
→ Alice in Wonderland

"Fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore.
She loves salting my wounds,
Yes, she enjoys nothing more.
I bleed confidence from deep within my guts now,
I'm the king of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown."
→ Polygraph, Right Now by The Spill Canvas

“You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger.”
→ Chuck Palahniuk

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
→ Dr. Seuss

"Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity …. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
→ Andrew Futral

"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.”
→ Mignon McLaughlin

“‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can’t hide. Every single successful love song of the past fifty years can be traced back to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding. Trust me. I’ve thought a lot about this.”
→ Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

"to be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which and human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
→ e.e. cummings

“You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns. And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.”
→ Sylvia Plath

“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.”
→ Meet Joe Black

“Love isn’t about the romantic nights or gifts. It isn’t about fireworks going off around you when you have that first, real, kiss. Love isn’t about kissing in the rain and dancing beneath the stars. It isn’t about the big moments or the big surprises. Love is not a fairytale. Love is about still having the butterflies after years. It’s about the second looks and laying in bed wide awake, all night, because you can’t go to sleep mad at each other. It’s about being willing to sacrifice, literally, everything for someone, just because you care so deeply for them. It’s not about buying them gifts, but it’s about leaving them little presents here and there, just to remind them that you are constantly thinking about them. Love is about all of the little things, that add up to really big things. Love is rare and special, but should not be treated as if it will break. Love needs to be thrown around and beat up a little bit, worn in, but not worn down. Love needs to be a comfortable feeling, a place to go when NO ONE else in the world can relate. A safe place, where you know that no matter how ugly you look or how angry you are, you will still be… loved.”
→ Unknown

“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”
→ Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
→ John Stuart Mill

“I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.”
→ Neil Gaiman

“

You know how it is. You pick up a book, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you.

Not this time.

Because we haven’t yet met/have only a glancing acquaintance/are just crazy about each other/haven’t seen each other in much too long/are in some way related/will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that, always think fondly of each other…

This one’s for you.
With you know what, and you probably know why.”
→ Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman