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

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
— Muhammad Ali

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
— Oliver Wendall Holmes

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

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened."
— Harold Pinter

"'I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.'"
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed."
— Malcolm X

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

""Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become.""
— Uknown (Deus Ex 3)

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
— William Shakespeare

"It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away"
— Barry Gibb

"He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

" And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"thus with a kiss I die"
— William Shakespeare

"Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now...."
— Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex)

""If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly." The Flirt (pg 288)

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— Kathleen Tessaro (The Flirt)

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
— Lou Holtz

"I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Love is the absence of judgement"
— Dahli Llama

"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."
— Lou Holtz

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
— Rachel Carson

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
— Lou Holtz

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."
— Anaïs Nin

""If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.""
— Thoreau

"Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
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— Public Enemy

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing."
— Richard Bandler

"Life itself is a battle but those that are battle ready can fight the battle.Remember that tough time never last but tough people last."
— Ade

"There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings."
— Wendell Berry

"You cannot change the world by yourself. You need to have two or three other people."
— Spenser Havlick

"Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable)

"The spirit of creation is eternal and life is proof of miracles."
— Rob Fanney