"When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "Happy". They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life."

— Unknown

"We delight in the promise of falling for love. We crumble in the dread of falling from love. Everyone falls. Everything falls."

— Wong Fu Productions, When Five Fell (Short Film)

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible"

— The Dalai Lama

"I don't want the world to see me/ Cause I don't think that they'd understand/ When everything's made to be broken/ I just want you to know who I am"

— Iris, Goo Goo Dolls (Song)

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth."

— Diane Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses)

"A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again .. "

— Tamora Pierce (The Immortals Quartet)

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

— Marilyn Monroe