• "There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there's hope.' — The Theory of Everything (2014)
• "I can't waste time wondering if I made mistakes. Life's too short for that." — Chow Mo-Wan, In The Mood For Love
• "How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone." — Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
• "You can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
• "We men put on great airs, but in our hearts there is hesitancy, doubt, all the fret that we feel." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Letter To A Hostage
• "Is not this capacity for joy the most precious fruit of the civilization that is ours? ... Prosperity and creature comforts alone could never fulfil all our needs." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Letter To A Hostage
• "The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved and they will open up like a flower." — The Grand Budapest Hotel
• "Open your eyes, and see what you can with them before they close forever." — All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." — Herman Hesse
• "Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." — Herman Hesse
• "Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration." — Demian, Herman Hesse
• " 'Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people. Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.' Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things." — I'll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson
• "What is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists." — I'll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson
• "It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak." — I'll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson
• "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realise something was actually strange." — Inception (2010)
• "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
• "The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have." — Leonard Nimoy
• "Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are." — I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak
• "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." — Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
• "In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount." — Haruki Murakami
• "As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't." — Haruki Murakami
• "Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes." — Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
• "Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering." — Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
• "What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better." — Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
• "Once you've met someone you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return." — Spirited Away
• "Many of my movies have strong female leads — brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man." — Hayao Miyazaki
• "And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition." – The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• “She did not ever ask him to love her back. Nor has she ever asked herself the questions that plague human couples: Does he love me? Does he love anybody more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short." – The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals." – The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• "All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives." - Steven Spielberg
• "Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time." - Abdu'l-Bahá
• "Perhaps this is a perfect metaphor of the times in which we live; theres so much beauty and promise, and yet there's also so much suffering." - Dr Steven M. Greer
• "Look into the eyes of those around you. See they are awake. And even though they're different, the consciousness itself is the same ... We are all one in Spirit." – Dr Steven M. Greer
• "True regret isn't so much about what you have done but is related more to what you haven't done – the effort you didn't expend, the kindness you didn't extend, the times you were selfish when you should have been giving – that is where regret comes from." – Dr Steven M. Greer
• "Besides, lower than humanity, there cannot be in this universe! ... You know, God cannot be so foolish as to entrust all of his hopes for intelligent beings just on this planet." – Monsignor Balducci, Roman Catholic theologian of the Vatican Curia
• "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" - It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
• "Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends." - It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
• "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.” - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• "But in the end all religions tend to point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules." - Paulo Coelho
• "...worry is a constriction. A mind narrows when it has too much to bear." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• " ...not because I am an admirable daughter but because I do not want anyone deciding for me what is big and what is little. I do not want fashion or fathers to decide.

Because it's never that simple. I can pretend not to care and still be wishing for his interest, his engagement, his assent." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear

• "Some of us may kill birds with guns and oil spills but most of us kill them with our lumbering, ignorant love ... or we kill them at a distance through our technologies, our windows, our medium-sized carbon footprints..." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "I sensed that he would be disappointed if his music went entirely unnoticed. Neither the musician nor I were whispering down wells or writing words to be kept in a drawer or buried underground." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings...Every love story is a potential grief story." - Levels of Life, Julian Barnes
• "What if the pain of not doing something was greater than the pain of doing it?" - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "In (Daniel) Pauly's opinion, the deterioration of wildlife has been enabled by collective forgetfulness. Our faulty memories and relatively short lifespans have made us unreliable witnesses. We are unable to truly grasp how much of the natural world has been altered and destroyed by our actions because the baseline shifts over time and generations have rendered us blind." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "I am wary of a world with no limits, a world in which humans feel omnipotent, in which appeals to change course are drowned out by the euphoria and hubris of invention." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "...our courage comes out in different ways. We are brave in our bold dreams but also in our hesitations. Brave in our terrific tolerance for making a hundred mistakes." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "He was, at the very least, familiar with the feeling that making art ... was a fairly limited and potentially narcissistic thing to be doing with one's time on a fucked-up planet." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "...that to say that a love of nature is a function of privilege and wealth, that a delight in small things is incompatible with a passion for justice, is untrue and patronizing to the struggling and the poor." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "There are no big reasons to live. Just little reasons." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "Make leeway for chance. Sometimes you don't want to be driven to a point. Sometimes it is exactly when we lose our bearings or take a detour that life really gets going." - Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear
• "Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?" - William Stafford
• "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."- Rumi
• "There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
• "We are the transformers of the earth; our entire existence, the flights and plunges of our love, everything qualifies us for this task." - Rainer Maria Rilke
• "Pull the bow: a gentle motion. God will do the rest." - William Stafford
• "This - the immediate, everyday, and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe." - Alan Watts
• "This we know: the earth does not belong to man, belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle
• "You realize beyond all trace of doubt that the world is in you, and not you in the world." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• "I know what the greatest cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world." - Henry Miller
• "You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve the earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely." - Chogyam Trungpa
• "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."- Emily Dickinson
• "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams
• "Miracles rest simply upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is about us always." -Willa Cather