http://listography.com/pattiocleavis/quotes/dear_ones http://listography.com/briannacat/quote/words_to_remember_and_inspire. http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4379.Sylvia_Plath

• "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."— Dr. Seuss
• "All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king."— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

• "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."— Mark Twain
• "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."— Mark Twain
• "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
• "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."— John Lennon
• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."— Robert Frost
• "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."— Abraham Lincoln
• "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." — Albert Camus
• "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."— Eleanor Roosevelt (This is My Story)
• “I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb." john green//looking for alaska
• "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill
• "A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see because it means that he or she has from knowing nothing to believing in nothing." Maya Angelou
• "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
• I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Friedrich Nietzsche
• But they woke him with words, their cruel, bright weapons. T. H. White
• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett
• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. Montesquieu
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams
• You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good’. Stephen Cove
• I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. Frida Kahlo
• He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone. ~__Truman Capote__
• “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” F Scott Fitzgerald
• “You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you’re a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And alas, it’s seldom successful.” Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.
• “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” C.S. Lewis
• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein
• "The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those that do not have it." Shaw
• "Crush humanity out of shape once more . . . and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of . . . oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind." Charles Dickens
• “Sometimes, I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow; there’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person - as if I never thought anything, never wrote anything, never felt anything.” Sylvia Plath
• "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." -__Sylvia Plath__
• "With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh." - Amélie
• “God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” - Sylvia Plath
• "In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: 'Is it good, friend?' 'It is bitter - bitter,' he answered; 'But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.'" - Stephen Crane
• "Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn." -__Sylvia Plath__
• "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." - Jane Austen (Jane Austen's Letters)
• “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.” -__Stephen Chbosky (The perks of being a wallflower)__
• “How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?” - Don DeLillo
• "There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• "People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Teresa
• "How hard it is to find words to express one's deepest feelings? "- Miss Austen Regrets
• God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us. C.S. Lewis
• I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless." Hayao Miyazaki
• What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -__Helen Keller__
• “You finally came this far, didn’t you? To become an adult, pain is necessary too, but you will probably be able to go much, much farther, even to other galaxies and other universes.” - Mikako Nagamine (Voices of a Distant Star)
• I’ve had people write that I’ve seen too many movies. In what other art form would being an expert be considered a negative? If I were a poet, would I be criticized for knowing too much about Sappho? Or Aristotle? - Quentin Tarantino
• Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. -__Mark Twain__
• Literature to know we are not alone, literature to experience that we have not." lewis?
• "We accept the love we think we deserve." -__Stephen chobosky (the perks of being a wallflower)__
• “This was the machinery of life, not a clean, clinical well-oiled engine, monitored by a thousand meticulous dials, but a crazy, stumbling contraption made up of strange things roughly fitted together.”- Margaret Mahy, Memory
• "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."— John Irving
• “I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you.” - v for vendetta
• ““Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”- John Green (Looking For Alaska)
• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.- Ray Bradbury
• “Imitation is suicide; envy is ignorance.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• They’ve promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too."- Oscar Wilde
• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.- Barbara Kingsolver
• “However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. _Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts._” - Henry David Thoreau
• "I think one of the principal facets of being a mature and healthy and effective person is understanding that you are almost always wrong.You might not be all the way wrong, but at least a little bit wrong. You’re always a little bit wrong." - Hank Green
• I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day." -__The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.__
• “Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.” Francis Bacon
• "Little by little one travels far." - J.R.R. Tolkien
• "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
• "Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk
• "I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live." - Jonathan safran Foer
• “We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~ Emerson
• Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting." - John Green
• Every year, many many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. — John Green
• "You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway." - Maya Angelou
• "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." - Helen Keller
• "Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

• V"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.

Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice." — Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

• Chuck Palahniuk

"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close." — Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

• Chuck Palahniuk

"I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse." — Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

• "People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."

— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

• "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

• "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?"

— Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)

• "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

— Oscar Wilde

• "I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

— Oscar Wilde

• "You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

• "Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head." ~ Chuck palahniuk