"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"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

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

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

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

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"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)

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

"I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

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

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year..."
— Pamela Redmond Satran

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
— Doris Mortman

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
— Laozi

"Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path."
— Baháʼuʼlláh

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)"
— D.J. MacHale (The Quillan Games)

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)

"Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny."
— Bruce Springsteen

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
— George Carlin

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
— W.C. Fields

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
— Garrison Keillor

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
— Anne Frank

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles."
— Robert Walser (Jakob von Gunten)

"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

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)