Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

-- Christina Westover, The Fault in Our Stars

Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.

-- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

You totally love him. He's your widdle snookums.

-- Thea Harrison, Serpent's Kiss

Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.

-- Janet Skeslien Charles, Moonlight in Odessa

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

-- Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

Nothing will work unless you do.

-- Maya Angelou, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

-- Stephen Richards, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

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

-- Rick Warren, Lover Mine

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

-- Oscar Wilde, Your Forces and How to Use Them

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

-- Michael Neill, The Stars My Destination

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

-- John Green, Paper Towns

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

-- Harvey Pekar, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Whatever you dream of is a possibility.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.

-- Anamika Mishra, Passion and Pain

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

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

Books may well be the only true magic.

-- Alice Hoffman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

-- Kresley Cole, The Will to Power

In academics, an excellent result without personal effort is a copied work

-- ETC Wanyanwu, Deschooling Society

Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.

-- Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Me Before Them

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

-- Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts