"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"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)

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

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

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

"when we’re in emotional pain, we think it’s a mistake, something that needs to be remedied. ‘We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that.’
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— marian keyes pharaphrasing pema chodron

"We tend to fantasise about eliminating uncertainty so that the world can be safe… the first thing to note about uncertainty – or insecurity, the uncomfortable feeling it produces – is that it is intrinsic to a dynamic existence… insecurity is inescapable.’
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— Tim Lott

"“ how wrong is it for women to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself?”

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— Anaïs Nin

"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man laying over me, always over me. His will. His pleasure. His desire. His life. His work. His sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh god, as a woman, I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”"
— Anaïs Nin

"“if a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child”"
— Anaïs Nin

"Regrets are mistakes you don’t learn from "
— Annalise america's next top model

"“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be”"
— Clementine padleford

"Things do not change, we change."
— Henry David Thoreau

"He may be holding the whip but I was the one tying myself up, tying myself to someone who was terrified of being tied down "
— Carrie sex and the city

"Love that is not madness is not love."
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
— Confucius

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!"
— Bob Marley

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

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
— Lily Tomlin

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
— Tom Clancy

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)