• When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you. -Patrick Stump
• Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar. -Gloria Anzaldua
• Remember when you were eight and you left the house on Halloween dresses as a monster? Now you're eighteen, and wishing it was just a costume. -d.p.
• To thine own self be true. -William Shakespeare
• Do you think that went well? Does she know how you feel? And whose fault is that?
• Please take the ghosts from my heart; I don't want to be haunted anymore.
• If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. -The Quiet Rabbit
• We are all mad here.
• Dreams don't work unless you do.
• I'd rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.
• The best feeling in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone.
• Do not fall in love with people like me, we will take you to museums and parks and monuments and kiss you in every beautiful place so that you can never go back to them without tasting us like blood in your mouth.
• Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place. -Gentlemen's Wisdom
• Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul. -Charlie Chaplan
• The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. -Endless River
• The destruction of all art is art too. Please tear this up. -Ben 1963
• My library is an archive of longings. -Susan Sontag
• Sometimes sad is very big. It's everywhere. All over me.
• I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 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
• Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso
• Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion. -Paige
• I am the designer of my own catastrophe.
• Above all, don’t lie to yourself. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. -Friedrich Nietzsche
• Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters. -Ernest Hemingway
• We all start as strangers.
• A girl once told me to be careful when trying to fix a broken person, for you may cut yourself on their shattered pieces.
• We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
• She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. -Rainbow Rowell
• 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. Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go. -E.E. Cummings
• Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either. -Osho
• All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. -Scott Alexander
• When we die I hope we become a part of the sky, so every time it rains we are everywhere we couldn't be when we were alive.
• Nothing will last forever, my dear.
• Someone once asked me, “Why do you insist on taking the hard road?” I replied, “Why do you assume I see two roads?"
• A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages. -Hermann Hesse
• Kill the urge to always say something about yourself when others say something personal. - Michael Lipsey
• Don't die hesitating.
• If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it. -C.S. Lewis
• This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. -Buddy Wakefield
• The next step will come but you don’t need to rush. Enjoy your life as it is. Not as what it will be. -Gentlemen's Wisdom
• Be the strange you wish to see in the world.
• Any fool can know. The point is to understand. -Albert Einstein
• People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand. -Elvis Presley
• Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not character.
• I was interested in everything and committed to nothing. -Lin
• If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. -Roald Dahl
• Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope no harm, just another false alarm. -The Smiths
• This is for all the people I’ll never meet. This is for the person I might have kissed had I taken a different subway line on Saturday and the person I might have been if that boy hadn’t broken my mother’s teenage heart. This is for the people I would have loved if last winter hasn’t been so cold and for the city I would have called home if I had written haikus on napkins and carried pens in dress pockets and in the knots of my hair. This is for who I was, who I am, who I might be. This is for you. -Camryn Pulaski
• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. -Desmond Tutu
• Sometimes the king is a woman.
• Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. -Albert Camus
• It is so easy to forget how precious it is to be alive.
• If you are not angry you are not paying attention.
• Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.
• We still have to change the world.
• Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out! -Dead Poets Society
• And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -Dead Poets Society
• No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. -Dead Poets Society
• We are praying for a savior when salvation’s in our hands. -Dead Poets Society
• All street art is graffiti but not all graffiti is street art.
• People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.
• Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. -David Foster Wallace
• It’s when you hide things that you choke on them. -Charles Bukowski
• But these are days we dream about when the sunlight paints us gold, and this apartment could not be prettier as we danced

up there alone. -Bright Eyes

• The story goes that you have time to figure things out, to crawl out of your skin if you’re sick of it, or find a way to make peace with it. You’re nineteen, and all the years that come before it. Pick one.

The story goes wherever you go. -Caitlyn Siehl

• And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. -F. Scott Fitzgerald