I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist. - Morrissey

Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. - Virginia Woolf, Orlando

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. - Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

Lately I can't help wanting usto be like other people.For example, if I were a smoker,you'd lift a match to the cigarettejust as I put it between my lips.It's never been like thatbetween us: none of thateasy chemistry, no quick, half automaticflares. Everything between ushad to be learned.Saturday finds me broodingbehind my book, all my fantasiesof seduction run upagainst the rocks.Tell me againwhy you don't likesex in the afternoon?No, don't tell me--I'll never understand younever understand us, America's strangestloving couple: they neverdrink a bottle of wine togetherand rarely look at each other.Into each other's eyes, I mean. - Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. - Yann Martel, Life of Pi

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. - Thomas Merton

Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. - Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. - Michael Jackson

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. - Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean? - Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. - Leo Tolstoy

Love means never having to be apart - James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. - Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. - Karl Lagerfeld

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. - Confucius

Monkeys can't talk, stupid! - Jeff Kinney, Rodrick Rules