Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.
—Julia Quinn in With Love
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
—Harry S. Truman
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
—Quentin Crisp
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
—Laurence J. Peter
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
—e. e. cummings
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
—Salvador Dali
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
—Mitch Hedberg
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
—e. e. cummings
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
—Nicolas Chamfort
I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now…if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller
When they don't love you the way you want to, you mourn that for however long you need to. But then you get back up and you remind yourself. You are not a reflection of the people who can't love you. You will love again. You will be loved again.
—Caitlyn Siehl
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
—Lionel Shriver in Checker and the Derailleurs
We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
—Gayle Forman in Just One Day