• "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." - W. Somerset Maugham

life

• "Of course I believe that other worlds exist. If they didn't life wouldn't be interesting. It's like love: you can't see it but it exists- simply because you believe it. It's just a matter of believing." - 宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao
• "Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting..." - Hippocrates
• “Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.” - Sir J. Stephen
• "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
• "Hatred paralyzes life. Love releases it. Hatred confuses life. Love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life. Love illuminates it." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• "To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." - Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
• “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” - Douglas Coupland
• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
• "The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time." - Dan Millman
• "Everything worthwhile leaves bruises." - PostSecret's 'One Sentence Commencement Speeches'
• "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." - Grace Hansen
• "A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough." - Ben Franklin
• "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank
• "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London
• "Be at peace, not in pieces."
• "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” - Epicurus
• "One man's wrong lead is another man's counter-canter." - Steven D. Price
• "Don't let anyone with bad eyebrows tell you shit about life." - Unknown

friendship

• "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
• "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
• "Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; / but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog." - Douglas Mallock
• "Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away." - Michael Patrick King

love

• “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.” - Erika Jong
• "In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half." - Haruki Murakami
• "True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpoint in another." - John Beckwith
• “To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.”
• “Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.” - Blaise Pascal
• "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman
• "Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley
• "I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it." - Audrey Hepburn
• "You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." - Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
• "Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love shouldn't be one of them."
• "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
• "In my thoughts of you there is an underlying love that is present in every word, every glimpse I hope you feel it as I do, for it is what I am and ever I will be." - Venturer
• "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." - Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
• "To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
• "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." - James A. Baldwin
• "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
• "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." - Henry Van Dyke
• “There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” - Johnny Depp, Don Juan de Marco
• "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres."
• “The sky is perfectly blue. The clouds are perfect too. And here I am with you, what could be more right?” - Winnie the Pooh

individuality

• "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best." - Walt Whitman
• "If you live off a man's compliments – you'll die from his criticisms."
• "If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
• "Push back against your fears, for your heart is much stronger than you realize." - Rick Levine (MY HOROSCOPE GUY LMAO...)
• "Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary." - Uta Hagen
• "The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." - Lorraine Hansberry
• "You will always exist in the universe in one form or another." - Shunryu Suzuki
• "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." - Marilyn Monroe
• "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 don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe
• "But I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes." - Edith Warton
• "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami
• "The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It’s easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It’s less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI." - Charlie Brooker
• "Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction." - Kevyn Aucoin

people

• "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while." - Haruki Murakami
• "No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all." - Haruki Murakami, "Birthday Girl"
• "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval
• "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." - George Morris
• "People become immune to love like they become immune to any disease. Either they had it bad early in life, like chicken pox, and that's that; or they keep getting exposed to it in little doses and build up an immunity; or somehow they just don't catch it, something in them is born resistant... I'm immune to love and poison ivy." - Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House
• “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” - Voltaire

new years

• "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere along the way, in the next year, you surprise yourself." - Neil Gaiman
• "I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind." - Neil Gaiman

etc

• "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Claud Cockburn
• "Don’t be so serious. It’s only makeup." - François Nars
• "I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles." - Audrey Hepburn
• "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." - Vincent Van Gogh
• "You shouldn't give up. / Fight for yourself and / who you are. You've got / to go through the worst / times in life to get the best" - San Francisco P!S
• "When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• "My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.’" - Demetri Martin
• "Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them... I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it... I don't die - I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there." - Philip Herriton, E. M. Forster's Where Angels Fear To Tread
• "Troubled hearts map deserts and they rarely do come back" - Blindblindblind
• "One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?" - Prior Walter, Tony Kushner's Angels in America
• "Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane." - John Green in Looking for Alaska
• "I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." - Banksy
• "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Sir Winston Churchill