"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

"To perceive is to suffer."
— Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do."
— Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none."
— Aristotle

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue and excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

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

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
— Robert Frost

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
— Robert Frost

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost

"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
— Robert Frost

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers"
— Voltaire

"Ice-cream is exquisite.
What a pity it isn't illegal."
— Voltaire

"Dare to think for yourself."
— Voltaire

"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous."
— Voltaire

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
— George Gordon Byron

"In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears"
— George Gordon Byron

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

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
— Winston Groom (Forrest Gump)

"Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man."
— Miranda Ingram

"Edward - I wasn't about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Bella - So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it?
Edward - Why is the plane crashing?
He was trying to hide a smile now.
Bella - The pilots are passed out drunk.
Edward - Easy. I'd fly the plane.
Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again.
Bella - Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral toward the earth.
Edward - I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I'd run you back to the scene of the accident, and we'd stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
I stared at him wordlessly.
"What?" he whispered."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)