❝ In the language of flowers, a four-leaf clover means “luck.” In order for us to find four-leaf clovers, we step on countless three-leaf clovers but do you know what a three-leaf clover means in the language of flowers? It means “happiness.” It seems that in the plethora of happiness surrounding us, our focus is solely on finding luck in our lives. ➻ Kim Jaedong

❝ Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self. ➻ Yohji Yamamoto

❝ If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives. ➻ Lemony Snicket

❝ Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. ➻ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion: a Romance

❝ What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ➻ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars

❝ Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. That’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story. ➻ Haruki Murakami

❝ I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone. ➻ Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

❝ Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. ➻ Albert Camus, a Happy Death

❝ We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears. ➻ Wong Kar Wai, Chungking Express

❝ How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? ➻ Boris Pasternak, El Doctor Zhivago

❝ After screaming I finally understand. I’ve always been afraid. I was afraid because I couldn’t see the future. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was afraid of the me that didn’t know what he wanted to do. And the days just keep flowing. ➻ Umino Chika, Honey & Clover

❝ The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack. ➻ Keith Miller

❝ My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. ➻ Albert Camus

❝ In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth. ➻ Marcel Proust, Le Temps Retrouvé

❝ Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go. ➻ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

❝ I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort—and disappointment and perseverance. ➻ Vincent van Gogh

❝ We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. ➻ Robert Brault

❝ Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. ➻ Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

❝ Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. ➻ Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer

❝ The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ➻ Ben Okri

❝ Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. ➻ Alan Keightley