"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

"I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

"He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"What dreadful Hot weather we have!—It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance."
— Jane Austen

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
— George Eliot

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
— Woody Allen

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

"'Amazing,' Edward muttered. 'How can someone so small be so annoying?' ..Alice laughed. 'It's a talent!'"
— Stephenie Meyer

"I'd never lived on a planet where such atrocities could happen, even before the souls came. This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds- the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions...the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Host)

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
"
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"... because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

"We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
— Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day)

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara."
— Richard Dawkins

"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. "
— Richard Dawkins

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
— Sylvia Plath

"The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"
His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together."
"Then why did you lie to me?"
We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help.
"Why did you lie?" I murmured again.
Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.
"Because we can't be together."
"Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"
His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."
I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.
"No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"--"Roza." His voice had the same wonferful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't Hesitate"--
-Dimitri Belikov"
— RichelleMead - Blood Promise

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"For the few little outward successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgiving and self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

"I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of themm, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don't want to look around any more: I don't need to look around for anything."
— Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

"Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. "
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)