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

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

"When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
— Richard Bach

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
— Joan Crawford

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

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

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

"Perhaps she was not as weak as she always assumed; finally, you had to measure yourself by other people--there really was nothing else. Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

"She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
— Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites)

"I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

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

"All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. "
— Neil Gaiman

"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)

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
— Neil Gaiman

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

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

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."
— Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)