• I love her, and that's the beginning and the end of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson
• The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates
• When I met you, flowers started growing in the darkest parts of my mind. - Michelle
• Don't give up, because as long as you are trying, as long as you are putting an effort, there's a chance; a chance to accomplish, a chance to have what you've wanted for so long, a glimpse of hope. - Michelle
• One day you're going to see her holding hands with someone who took your chance. She won't even notice you because she's too busy laughing with the stupid jokes he makes. And, it will burn your heart seeing that beautiful smile on her face, and realising that you're not the reason anymore. And, then it will finally hit you; it was her, it was always her. - Michelle
• You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it. - Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
• Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. - L. M. Montgomery
• Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. - Maya Angelou
• My message to all men is that you have to kill pride. You’ve been taught that pride is a manly thing, that pride is a good thing. But the problem with pride is that it stops you from growth. When you’re so proud that you won’t change, you’ve got problems. Male pride causes wars; millions of people have died because of male pride, because one man would not back down. Male pride will say, “I’d rather blow up my whole family than have everyone look at me as though I’ve lost.” That is so dangerous.

— Terry Crews

• I want to get married, though I want children - to me that’s the ultimate thing. When you’re old and on your death bed, looking back at your life it’s not going to be the films you’ve made or what you’ve accomplished, it’s the relationships you have. You’re survived by things that matter - the people you love and those who love you back. - Chris Evans
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Monsters are our children. They can be pushed to the farthest margins of geography and discourse, hidden away at the edges of the world and in the forbidden recesses of our mind, but they always return. And when they come back, they bring not just a fuller knowledge of our place in history and the history of knowing our place, but they bear self-knowledge, human knowledge - and a discourse all the more sacred as it arises from the Outside. These monsters ask us how we perceive the world, and how we have misrepresented what we have attempted to place. They ask us to reevaluate our cultural assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, our perception of difference, our tolerance toward its expression. They ask us why we have created them. - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Monster Culture: Seven Theses
• Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side – it's exciting – and then you realise the dark side wins every time if you decide to indulge in it. It's also a completely different way of living when you know that...a different species of person. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me. - Lana Del Rey
• Men force women down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low. - Nawal El-Saadawi
• Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist. - Janet Mock
• Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers. - Desmond Tutu
• You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right. - Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)
• Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return. - Brianna Wiest
• Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus
• Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars. - Nico Lang
• Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside. - Audre Lorde
• For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places. but still there is much that is fair. And, though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater. - J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
• Sometimes words are not enough. - Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)
• Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite, and the wounds never close. - Stephen King, The Body 1982
• Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
• If you ignore your feelings, you are also ignoring yourself. How then, can you ever trust yourself if you have been if ignoring yourself for so long? ― Elliot Hulse
• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. ― J. K. Rowling
• You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. - S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

• If you're losing your soul, and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. - Charles Bukowski
• If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. - Charles Bukowski
• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. - Lao Tzu
• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. - Anatole France
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett
• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Gail Sheehy
• People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking
• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - E.E. Cummings
• We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky
• We are what we believe we are. - C.S. Lewis
• Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. - Henry Rollins
• A man that views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
• It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. - Alan Alda
• The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done. - Marilyn Manson
• Sweat saves blood. - Erwin Rommel
• Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. - Frank Tyger
• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it doesn't exist. - Friedrich Nietzche
• Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. - Clint Eastwood.
• I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know that violent people are weak people. Only the gentle are ever really strong. - James Dean
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. - Marcus Aurelius
• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu
• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. - Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. - Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
• No matter how bad you fuck up, or mistakes you've made during the year, your life, your eternity. You're always allowed to be better. You're always allowed to grow up. If you want. - Donald Glover