• “If you are going to be an artist — even a photographer — I think you have to major in fantasy. Norman Parkinson
• “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. Henri Cartier-Bresson
• “The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Charles Morgan
• "Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph Robert Heinecken
• "In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken away from you. Oscar Wilde
• "Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe Neil Gaiman
• "She remained as she had always been, amused and curious, but strangely distant, as if her own life were a book she was reading, one she might put down at any moment in order to gaze out the window at the sky. The Secrets of a Fire King
• “Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King
• “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn
• “Dwell in possibility... Emily Dickinson
• “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn
• “The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. James Allen
• “Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough
• “Well, nobody’s perfect. Some Like it Hot
• “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Dr. Seuss
• “Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game. Will Durant
• “There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel
• “The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. George Balanchine
• “Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. Anna Gould
• “I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall
• “Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. Arthur Freed
• “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. Anne Sexton
• “I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. All of us… Sara Crewe ( A Little Princess)
• “When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci
• “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
• “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein
• “It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic.You can always cry later. Lucimar Santos de Lima
• “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose
• “If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
• “Don’t let the alarm clock of life wake you from the dream of your ideals. Irisa Hail
• “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. Mae West
• “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams
• “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. William Somerset Maugham
• “Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. Lemony Snicket ( The Carnivorous Carnival)
• “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. Eleanor Roosevelt
• “She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important — you know. Marilyn Monroe
• “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Cervantes ( Don Quixote)
• “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Robert Frost
• “Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. William Goldman ( The Princess Bride)
• “Well-behaved women rarely make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• “We read to know that we are not alone. C.S. Lewis
• “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen ( Northanger Abbey)
• “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
• “That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis
• “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
• “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. Dr. Seuss
• “Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
• “Time you enjoy wasting is never wasted. John Lennon
• “Dignity, always dignity.
• “Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. Mark Twain
• “Never say anything which doesn't improve upon silence.
• “Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare
• “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien
• “The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk
• “I have learned now that while those who speak of ones miseries usually hurt, and those who keep silent hurt more. C.S.Lewis
• “Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous but it is how people dress on their days off that are the most intriguing. Alexander Wang
• “I am my own woman. Evita Perón
• “Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall
• “Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. Greta Garbo
• “Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Jean Cocteau
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse
• “Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality? George Moore
• “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius
• “If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful. Sophia Loren
• “What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. Brigitte Bardot
• “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch
• “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
• “I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind. Dr. Spencer Reid
• “Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. Umberto Eco
• “Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I’m an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people. Augusten Burroughs
• “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
• “I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things…. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo Buscaglia
• “Strange. There are hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle. Neil Gaiman “_Strange little girls_”
• “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go. Dr. Seuss
• “Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. Angela Chase, My So Called Life
• “Basically, what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly. The Virgin Suicides
• “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis
• “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde
• “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short. Brian Andreas
• “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
• “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius, Analects
• “There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
• “Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal. Voltaire
• “We call them faerie. We don’t believe in them. Our loss. Charles de Lint__
• “Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. S.A. Sachs
• “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
• “I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine. Lou Reed
• “If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
• “There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
• “Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo
• “What did we care, any one of the three of us, where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life? The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• “The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. Anatole France
• “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• “To die will be an awfully big adventure. Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
• “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
• “Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us. __Charlotte Bronte--
• “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead
• “Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen
• “No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Mauriae
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
• “You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
• “She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• “I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. Haruki Murakami
• “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. Christian Larsen
• “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. Bill Cosby
• “True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Florence King
• “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
• “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
• “The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. Mae West
• “Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. Earl Nightingale
• “Nostalgia is a seductive liar. George Wildman Ball
• “To err is human, but it feels divine. Mae West
• “The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence. Sue Atchley Ebaugh
• “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. Marie Antoinette
• “There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. Bernard-Paul Heroux
• “If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can’t do. Helen Lawrenson
• “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not? George Bernard Shaw
• “Excellence is in the details. Perry Paxton
• “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
• “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen
• “Always be a little kinder than necessary. James M. Barrie
• “‘I could tell you my adventures — beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ Lewis Carroll, “_Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland_”

thanks to misswallflower for many of the quotes listed here