I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

-- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

-- Paulo Coelho, The Human Revolution

A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.

-- Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Do not lose heart nor hope.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

-- C.S. Lewis, Anne of Avonlea

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

-- Tim Minchin, Alif the Unseen

I will never claim to know what you are thinking. I only hope I am on your mind.

-- Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Don't worry about what you can not do, do what you can do!

-- Coleen Innis, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance

- "Why don't you like to be touched?" - "Because I'm fifty shades of fucked-up, Anastasia

-- E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

-- H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

Don't expect people behave the way you want them to.

-- Sven Moragues, 9 Powerful Habits That Help Smart Dads Win Custody Battles: How To Deal With Manipulative Mothers

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

-- Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

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

Stars are dull when they're compared to you and I

-- Grace VanderWaal, What is Mind?

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

-- Amit Kalantri, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Knowledge gives shows us a direction; education gives us power to walk.

-- Debasish Mridha, The Gospel of Relaxation

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

-- Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

I fear you will never reach Mecca, O Nomad! For you are on the road to Turkestan… (Saadi)

-- Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

-- Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

-- Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour