"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

"I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude."
— Gerard Way

"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

"I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick!"
— Gerard Way

"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

"You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential."
— Joseph Campbell (The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work)

"Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue."
— Marcel Proust

"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

"Jika sebuah tali itu sudah sangat mengencang, itu tandanya akan putus. Jika malam sudah gelap gulita, itu tandanya bahwa kegelapan akan segera lenyap. Jika sebuah masalah itu sudah sangat menghimpit, itu tandanya akan ada jalan keluar."
— Aidh bin Abdullah Al-Qarni

"I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago.
Look at her now.”
We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls
hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her.
“Okay,” I said as we turned back. “Bad example.”"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"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

"Mirror Therapy is the cheapest way to boost self confidence."
— audrylin

"I think a plan is just a list of things that don't happen."
— Parker

"i bow down to the perfect buddha, the best of propounders, who taught that what dependently arises has no cessation, no production, no annihilation, no permanence, no coming, no going, no difference, no sameness, is free of the elaborations of inherent existence and of duality and is at peace."
— nagarjuna

"a doer arises dependent on a doing, and a doing exists dependent on a doer. except for that, we do not see another cause for their establishment."
— nagarjuna

"because things are not produced causelessly, of from ishvara and so forth, or from other, from self, or both, they are dependently produced."
— Chandrakirti

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
— Pastor Martin Neimoeller

"Quo Vadis?"
— The Bible

""From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.""
— Betty Smith

"there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. "
— longbaugh

"tell ya the truth, I don't think this is a brains kind of operation. "
— longbaugh

"i promise you a day of reckoning that you won't live long enough to never forget. "
— joe sarno

"need is the ultimate monkey."
— Parker

"When you think about deaf people, people who are born deaf... who've never heard a spoken word. What do you think they call the sun or their mother... or their own reflection in the mirror? That's what I call it.
"
— Robin

"For the record I'll call myself Mr. Parker. My associate will be Mr. Longbaugh. "
— Parker

"Die ersten Schritte sind wertlos, wenn der Weg nicht zu Ende gegangen wird."
— Shankara

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.

"
— Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet

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