I do like the world quite a lot. - Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. - Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen. - Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening. - Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. - Paulo Coelho, Maktub

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We don't receive wisdom - we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing. - Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care - Emily Dickinson

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. - Woody Allen

I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly - Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty. - Kelly White

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget. - Judith McNaught, Paradise