- "Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world – to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want." - Ayn Rand
- "Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or—such is the pleasure they experience—they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them." - Paulo Coelho
- "Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities." - Dean Koontz, Midnight
- "You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else." - Daniel Franzese
- "We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine." - Eduardo Galeano
- "I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can’t be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren’t like that. You still ask questions. You’re still looking for the answers." - Ryan O’Connell, I Want To Know You
- "Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Homer, The Iliad
- "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." - Stanley Kubrick
- "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." - Josephine Hart
- "Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing." - Hunter S. Thompson
- "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." - Sherlock Holmes
- "I’ve found clarity in my life through music, and that gives me hope. Hope that people can change. Hope that people can grow up. Hope that with all the differences in our lives, people can come together and notice something beautiful and real. Hope that everyday can be an amazing day." - Garrett Nickelsen
- "All the backstories are there but not talked about." - Benedict Cumberbatch
- "I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem." - Jaime Gil de Biedma
- "I can't tell you the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." - Ed Sheeran
- "John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” For me, life is what was happening while I was busy waiting for my big moment. I was ready for it and believed that the rest of my life would fade into the background, and that my big moment would carry me through life like a lifeboat. The Big Moment, unfortunately, is an urban myth. Some people have them, in a sense, when they win the Heisman or become the next American Idol. But even that football player or that singer is living a life made up of more than that one moment. Life is a collection of a million, billion moments, tiny little moments and choices, like a handful of luminous, glowing pearl. It takes so much time, and so much work, and those beads and moments are so small, and so much less fabulous and dramatic than the movies. But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I’m waiting for, that adventure, that move-score-worthy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets – this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of use will ever experience." - Shauna Niequist
- "To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it." - Ernest Hemingway
- "Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way." - Charles Bukowski
- "I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - L.M. Montgomery
- "Eyes. Those damn eyes fucked me forever. We made love just looking at them." - Charles Bukowski
- "Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me." - Maya Angelou
- "I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they’re in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love the gasp people take when their favorite character dies. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds. I fall in love with people and their honest moments all the time. I fall in love with their breakdowns and their smeared makeup and their daydreams. Honesty is just too beautiful to ever put into words." - Unknown
- "Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet." - E.R. Frank, Life Is Funny
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