- A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. - William Faulkner
- A gentleman can live through anything. - W.F.
- All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. - W.F.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - W.F.
- An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. -W.F.
- I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. - W.F.
- The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - W.F.
- We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. - W.F.
- The past is never dead. It's not even past. - W.F.
- A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. - Bil Keane
- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
- All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. - Julie Andrews
- For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
- I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. - Unknown
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov
- Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Einstein
- Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. -Einstein
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Einstein
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Einstein
- Information is not knowledge. - Einstein
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Einstein
- If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid
- It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Love conquers all. - unknown
- 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
- Love is my religion - I could die for it. - John Keats
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H.L. Mencken
- A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. - H.W.Longfellow
- Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think. - H.W.Longfellow
- Don't forget to be awesome - John Green
- However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. - H.W.Longfellow
- Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - H.W.Longfellow
- Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - H.W.Longfellow
- Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. - James A. Baldwin
- When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. - James A. Baldwin (see the slight bit of irony in this quote? ;P )
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
- I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. - Johnny Depp
- 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
- With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. - Johnny Depp
- Mmm-hmm. Most of the time I have all these thoughts bouncin' around in my head... but with a brush in my hand, the world just gets kinda quiet. - "Allie" from The Notebook
- I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough. - "Noah" from The Notebook
- So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday. - "Noah" from The Notebook
- Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone. - "Noah" from The Notebook
- I could be fun, if you want. I could be pensive, uhh... smart, supersticious, brave? And I, uhh, I can be light on my feet. I could be whatever you want. You just tell me what you want, and I'm gonna be that for you. - "Noah" from The Notebook
- It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet, while he didn't have two dimes to rub together. - "Duke" from The Notebook
- "Imagine all the people/Living life in peace/You may say that I'm a dreamer/But I'm not the only one/I hope someday/you'll join us/And the world will be as one." - John Lennon
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