The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. - Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. - Ayn Rand

There is a desire within each of us,in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart.We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied,and it never dies.We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake.It is the Human desire for Love.Every person in this Earth yearns to love,to be loved, to know love.Our true identity, our reason for beingis to be found in this desire.Love is the why of life,why we are functioning at all.I am convincedit is the fundamental energy of the human spirit.the fuel on which we run,the wellspring of our vitality.And grace, which is the flowing,creative activity, of love itself,is what makes all goodness possible.Love should come first,it should be the beginning of,and the reason for everything. - Gerald G. May, Living in Love

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic. - Woody Allen

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world. - Edmund Husserl

Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this. - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. - Alan W. Watts

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. - Theodore Roosevelt

Drualt took Freya's warm hand,Her strong hand,Her sword hand,And pressed it to his lips,Pressed it to his heart.Come with me,' he said.Come with me to battle,My love. Tarry at my side.Stay with meWhen battle is done.Tarry at my side.Laugh with me,And walk with meThe long, long way.Tarry with me,My love, at my side. - Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. - Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

Don't give up the fight,Stand up for your rights. - Bob Marley

This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit.If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV.If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.Stop over-analysing, life is simple.All emotions are beautiful.When you eat, appreciate every last bite.Life is simple.Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences.Ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them.Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.Some opportunities only come once, seize them.Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.Life is short, live your dream and wear your passion. - Holstee Manifesto, The Wedding Day

We are constantly invited to be what we are. - Henry David Thoreau

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future - they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? - Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. - Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia