Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with .98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And When his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And When he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden...But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out oflove’s threshing-floor,Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears...But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully. - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end. - Daniel C. Tomas

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. - Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. - Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. - Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. - Steven Wright

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow. - Gayle Forman, If I Stay

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be. - Laura Lee Guhrke, Guilty Pleasures

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. - John Green, Paper Towns

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. - Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone. - Tina Fey, Bossypants

This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero! - Sivananda Saraswati

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. - Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1

I will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you. - Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter

I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. - Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects. - Marty Rubin

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. - Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess