Other people spoke, and I tried to keep up with the translations. All the stories were about Dimitri's kindness and strength of character. Even when not out battling the undead, Dimitri had always been there to help those who needed it. Almost everyone could recall sometime that Dimitri had stepped up to help others, going out of his way to do what was right, even in situations that could put him at risk. That was no surprise to me. Dimitri always did the right thing.And it was that attitude that had made me love him so much. I had a similar nature. I too rushed in when others needed me, sometimes when I shouldn't have. Others called me crazy for it, but Dimitri had understood. He'd always understood me, and part of what we'd worked on was how to temper that impulsive need to run into danger with reason and calculation. I had a feeling no one else in this world would ever understand me like he did. - Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

I know you're tired but come, this is the way. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure. - Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer. - T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled. - Kiera Cass, The Selection

They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other. - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. - Walt Disney Company

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love. - Joyce Carol Oates

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well. - Vicktor Alexander

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. - Marilyn Monroe

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them. - Jalaluddin Rumi

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it. - D.H. Lawrence

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty. - Xiaolu Guo

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine. - Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness