"Someday everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at all the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself... everything happens for a reason."
— Kami Dawn Asay

"If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high my head
I think 'How lucky are the dead.'"
— Dorothy Parker (The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker)

"Normal is what people are...until you get to know them."
— Tessa Thornberry

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life"
— Bertolt Brecht (The Jewish Wife, and Other Short Plays)

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.there can be no courage unless you're afraid."
— Eddie Rickenbacker

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t."
— Erica Jong

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price."
— Joan Didion

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

"You can’t change the music of your soul."
— Katharine Hepburn

"it is not irritating to be where one is.it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else."
— John Cage

"life is not lost by dying;life is lost minute by minute,day by dragging day,in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
— Stephen Vincent Benét

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Berthold Auerbach

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
— Joseph Addison

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I am a part of all I have read."
— John Kieran

"talk is cheap and free advice is worth the price you pay."
— Steve Bogard and Rick Giles

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."
— Dorothy Parker

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Watch your thoughts; they became your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; they become your destiny."
— Frank Outlaw

"He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in."
— Edwin Markham