• "We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright." - Ernest Hemingway
• "I'm a simple woman, I like handsome bearded brunette men and breakfast food." - Channeling Ron Swanson
• "I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." - Audrey Hepburn
• "Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins." - Jennifer Donnelly
• "We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange; as often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." - Carson McCullers
• "People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely." - Hans F. Hansen
• "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
• "And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you’." - Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
• "Where you invest your love, you invest your life." - Mumford & Sons
• "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." - Audrey Hepburn
• "Don’t complain because you don’t have. Enjoy what you’ve got." - H. Stanley Judd
• "Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be returned to you a thousand times over. Whatever your life may become, these books — of this I am certain — will weave through the web of your unfolding. They will be among the strongest of all threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys." - Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet
• "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl
• "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel
• If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." - Henry Miller
• "Buy less, buy better, and really wear it." - Michael Bastian
• "I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." - Audrey Hepburn
• "Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh
• "Fall in love with as many things as possible."
• "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm - whether it’s something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being sad in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness." Paul Schmidtberger, Design Flaws of the Human Condition
• "Be curious, not judgmental." - Walt Whitman
• "Do what you love, love what you do."
• "If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together." - Andrea Gibson
• "If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives." - Lemony Snicket
• "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." - Coco Chanel
• "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
• A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars.” — E.E. Cummings
• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” - Jack Kerouac
• "I lost my heart to the ocean, and with it a piece of my soul."
• "You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them." - Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
• "Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love." - David Levithan
• "I hope you miss me, though I could scarcely (even in the cause of vanity) wish you to miss me as much as I miss you, for that hurts too much, but what I do hope is that I’ve left some sort of a little blank which won’t be filled till I come back. I bear you a grudge for spoiling me for everybody’s else companionship, it is too bad." - Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf, 31 January 1927
• "I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday." Lemony Snicket
• "Do something today that your future self will thank you for."
• "I am looking for someone to share

in an adventure that I am arranging, and it is very difficult to find anyone." - J. R. R. Tolkien

• "When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it."
• "At least once in your life, when you need to reset, pick a handful of places 4 to 8 hours away in every direction. Put them in a hat, get in the car, pull a name, and drive there. No questions asked." - Gentlemen’s Wisdom
• At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”
• "As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are.

otherwise you will miss most of your life."

• "Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you."
• "Live life to express, not to impress."
• “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.” ― Anaïs Nin
• “I’ve had a great day today. I flew for thirteen hours and I somehow didn’t watch t.v. the whole time. I didn’t notice until I was off the plane. I wonder what I was thinking about. I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.” ― Jack White
• “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.” — Jamie Tworkowski
• “Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that’s the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can’t hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that’s all.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
• “Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.” — Emery Allen
• “I don’t have a favorite season. I have a favorite feeling. It’s the windows down, silent back roads with dirty bare feet feeling. It’s when I can walk straight outside without pausing to fish out a jacket. It is curtains dancing around my room because of the cool breeze that pushes against its fabric. It is sunsets after dessert and grass as my pillow. The sound of lawnmowers, falling leaves, and rain against the window. Pockets of shade and walks along a gravel road.”