If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
—Don Marquis
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
—P.G. Wodehouse
That’s what life is about: People come and go.
—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
—Ethel Barrymore
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
—Andre Breton
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
—Christopher Morley
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
—William Goldman
And who shall say — whatever disenchantment follows — that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold?
—Thomas Wolfe
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
—James Baldwin
And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love.
—Beatrice of Nazareth
I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.
—Henry Miller
The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.
—Sue Patton Thoele
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question.
—Susan Sontag
I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing.
—Brian Koffman
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
—T.S. Eliot