"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. "
— George Washington Carver

"There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most."
— Thomas S. Monson

"Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy."
— V.C. Andrews

"Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

We will receive the joy of forgiveness in our own lives when we are willing to extend that joy freely to others. Lip service is not enough. We need to purge our hearts and minds of feelings and thoughts of bitterness and let the light and the love of Christ enter in. As a result, the Spirit of the Lord will fill our souls with the joy accompanying divine peace of conscience."
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"He was fabulously wealthy, but he would pretend to be broke, and often tried to borrow cigarettes and money from people. Little did they know that those who gave him stuff would later be rewarded in his will, with jewels and antigravity helmets. Women who refused to have sex with him are probably wishing that they could turn back the clock and say yes."
— Jack Handey

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

"You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time."
— V.C. Andrews

"Caroline Bingley: I can't help thinking that at some point someone is going to produce a piglet and we'll all have to chase it. "
— Pride and Prejudice (2005)

"Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes."
— Joseph B. Wirthlin

"But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair"
— Relient K

"Foolish one with the smile
You don't have to be brave
I'll gladly climb your walls
If you'll meet me halfway
Every time we fall down
But we're falling from grace
Here's my hand and my heart
It's yours to take
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— Kelly Clarkson

"Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it.

That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel."
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason)

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
— Jane Austen (Jane Austen's Letters)

"The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed. Listen to His words of counsel and comfort: 'Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.'"
— L. Lionel Kendrick

"I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand."
— Catherine Madsen

"If you feel naked, be naked"
— Sarah Dippy

"Seek the tarnish and you shall find"
— V.C. Andrews (If There Be Thorns)

"If you feel naked, be naked"
— Me and my friends

"You can't give up,
looking for a diamond in the rough,
'Cause you never know,
when it shows up make sure you're holding on,
'cause it could be the one, the one you're waiting on"
— Nickelback

"The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her." Dan: "I won't." Viktor: "You spoke a little too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you." Dan: "I'm a man of my word, and I promise I won't hurt her." He flexed his hands. "When I murder her, I'll do it real quick so she won't feel a thing." Viktor sighed. "That's exactly what I was afraid of.""
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips (It Had to Be You)

"I were in the right place, but it musta been the wrong time."
— Dr. John (The Night Tripper)

"Never Try to be someone you're not because you'll only turnout to be 99.99% perfect."
— Naxelly Infinity

"Good riddance to bad rubbish."
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

"I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead--for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6bn years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."
— Martin J. Rees

"So many times it's not what you say, its how you say turns the switch on."
— Maya Sheth

"I thought I was dreaming. He kept telling me I wasn’t, but it felt like it was too good to be true. I knew it was too good to be true. Love was too good to be true. Especially our love. There were no complications, no problems, it was all too easy. I kept expecting to wake up.
But I didn’t wake up, my life continued. Wonderful. Peaceful. Everything I’d ever dreamed of having was right in front of me. Him."
— Alysha Speer

"be your self...
then you will know who your true friends are!

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— Heaven {me}

""Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.""
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

""LIFE IS PAIN Highness!
Anyone who says differently is selling something."
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— Wesley