The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our thinking.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Girl on the Trail

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

-- Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

The world belongs to those who read.

-- Rick Holland, 84, Charing Cross Road

Beware! Your mind is a target!

-- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, When Breath Becomes Air

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

-- Karl Lagerfeld, Why We Can't Wait

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

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

A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.

-- Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

-- Sharon Salzberg, City of Bones

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

-- Will Rogers, Geek Love

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

-- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.

-- Rachel Gibson, Not Another Bad Date

The spiritual is a slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Survival Wisdom: Motivational Thoughts to Help You Prevail

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

-- Nelson Mandela, The Light in the Heart

I was still water, held by my surroundings. I am now a river, carving my own path.

-- Scott Stabile, Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

-- S. Evan Townsend, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Don't expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.

-- Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

-- Albert Camus, The Letter