I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

-- Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

-- Marilyn Monroe, Emerson in His Journals

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Umgangsformen sind Formen, die zunehmend umgangen werden.

-- Oliver Hassencamp, The Altar of the Body: A Novel

Was she on some sort of Candid Camera version of This is Your Sucky Love Life?

-- Nicki Elson, Three Daves

Be happy, not contented.

-- Biju Paulose, Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings

The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

-- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Why sadness was created? So we could rest from laughing.

-- Nelson M. Lubao, Meditations

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

-- Rick Warren, The Light in the Heart

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

-- Compton Gage, The Book of Memory

Humans are at their best when alleviating the suffering of another living thing.

-- Eileen Anglin, Dead Toad Scrolls

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.

-- Gretchen Rubin, The Theory of 46 Be's

She's my kitten, and no one else's.

-- Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

-- Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

-- Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

-- Wayne Chirisa, You Are Safe Here.

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

-- Compton Gage, Principia Humanitas