"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

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

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

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

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying."
— Woody Allen

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

"sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"
— Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
— Charles M. Schulz

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you"
— Annie Dillard

"The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. "
— Rebecca McClanahan

"I Hear and I Listen in
I See and I Remember
I Do and I Understand"
— Khong Jue

"Life is only lived full-time by women with children."
— Marguerite Duras

"It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work."
— Marian Keyes (Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married)

"To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles? To die, to sleep, no more! and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is air to. 'Tis a consummation devoutely to be wished. To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream; Aye there's the rub that makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the laws delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? For who would Fardels bare to grunt and sweat under a dreary life. But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose born, no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have then fly to others that we know not of. Thus conscious does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sickeled o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their current turn ary, and lose the name of action. Soft you now thy fair Ophelia, Nymph in thy orisions. Be all my sins remembered"
— William Shakespeare

"23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord."
— Romans 6:23

"Let those who say it can t be done get out of the way of those who are already doing it"
— Chinese Proverb

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
— Ellen Goodman

"We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it.And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. Maybe not out loud, if it's going to get you into trouble. (. . .) Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute."
— Nick Hornby