"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
— James Baldwin

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

"What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?"
— Jack Kerouac

"The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words."
— Jack Kerouac (Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings)

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road: The Original Scroll)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
— Frank Sinatra

""What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting"
— Sandy Sheehy

"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame ...
"
— Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those Who Think)

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Há um tempo em que é preciso abandonar as roupas usadas, que já tem a forma do nosso corpo, e esquecer os nossos caminhos, que nos levam sempre aos mesmos lugares. É o tempo da travessia: e, se não ousarmos fazê-la, teremos ficado, para sempre, à margem de nós mesmos."
— Fernando Pessoa

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand. "
— Albert Einstein

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

""Foi mais uma tarde de loucura e de sonho e, fosse qual fosse a faixa do tempo em que se encontrassem, sentiram-se, como todos os amantes, fora de qualquer espaço e de qualquer tempo. Fizeram um amor sagrado, um amor profano, um amor devoto, um amor transgressor, um amor nómada, um amor sedentário, um amor viajante, um amor de bichos, um amor de deuses."

"Um homem precisa de liberdade para depois apreciar o conforto da casa."
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— Rosa Lobato de Faria (As Esquinas Do Tempo)

""temos que aproveitar o pouco tempo que temos com cada pessoa que nos é querida, e amar todos os amores até quando nos é permitido.""
— Danielle Steel

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. "
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"....that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow Of The Wind)

"Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
— Robertson Davies

"Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious all along?"
— Bernhard Schlink

"I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.""
— Bernhard Schlink (The Reader)

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou