He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. - P.G. Wodehouse

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. - Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

We’d read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind. - Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. - Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart. - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world! - C. JoyBell C.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business - Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. - Isaac Asimov

In a well-ordered universe... - Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. - Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems

90% of the game is half mental. - Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain

I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him. - Colleen Houck

Everybody's damaged by something. - Emma Donoghue, Room