"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."

• Jack Kerouac

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

"You interpret my heart, my nature, as you wish to believe it. In truth, I have no secret longing to be saved from myself."

• Onegin (1999)

"And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity."

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

"City life is millions of people being lonesome together..."

• Henry David Thoreau

"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I will always love you. That's where I will be waiting."

• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

• Ferdinand Foch (sounds dangerous)

"Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven’t worked out the details yet."

• Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande

"I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to move on when the one you love walks away from you. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything truly worth knowing."

• Neil Gaiman

"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world."

• C. S. Lewis

"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen."

• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

"A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?"

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

"All good things are wild and free."

• Henry David Thoreau

"…in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life."

• Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

"At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."

• Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

"Stay flawless like a unicorn."

• no one

"Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel."

• Samuel Johnson

"September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret."

• Alexander Theroux, 1981

"She has that kind of smile that says 'You don't know me and you never will.'"

• absolutely no idea

"Let each man exercise the art he knows."

• Aristophanes

"A witty quote proves nothing."

• Voltaire

"Sometimes I wonder why words can't actually make us bleed."

• Split by Swati Avasthi