Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
—Anthony Trollope
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
—Mahatma Gandhi
How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
—Pablo Neruda
My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know.
—Helen M. Stump
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
—Terry Eagleton
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
—John Green