Henry David Thoreau

• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

C.S. Lewis

• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Audrey Hepburn

• When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

Herman Hesse

• Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Kurt Cobain

• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Margaret Atwood

• I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

Abraham Lincoln

• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

G.K. Chesterton

• Fairy tales do not tell children that Dragons exist. Children already know this. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

Charles Bukowski

• There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late.

David Russell

• The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Leo Buscaglia

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Angelina Jolie

• It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t want to be there.

Unknown

• Real people change, fake people don’t.

Elbert Hubbard

• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Henry Emerson Fosdick

• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Albert Einstein

• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Unknown

• You’ll never find the right person if you never let go of the wrong one.

Bob Marley

• The truth is, everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Jack Kerouac

• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Frederick Douglass

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist

• Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

Sylvia Plath

• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”

Frank McCourt

• It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Frank McCourt

• I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can’t take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don’t deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

Margaret Mitchell

• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Groucho Marx

• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.