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Charles Bukowski
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
Charles Bukowski
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
A.A. Milne
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
A.A. Milne
Gabriel García Márquez
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
D.H. Lawrence
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
John Green
“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
John Green, Paper Towns
Richelle Mead
“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
Max Lucado
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Max Lucado
Nicholas Sparks
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
Nicholas Sparks
Holly Black
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
C. JoyBell C.
“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
C. JoyBell C.
Lance Armstrong
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
Abraham Lincoln
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Abraham Lincoln
Roy T. Bennett
“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Cassandra Clare
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Rick Riordan
“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Albert Einstein
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Albert Einstein
Jim Morrison
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
Jim MORRISON
J.K. Rowling
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Roy T. Bennett
“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
Taylor Swift
Henry James
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
Henry James
Jorge Luis Borges
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Jorge Luis Borges
Shel Silverstein
“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
Sarah J. Maas
“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
Corrie ten Boom
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
Nicolas Chamfort
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
Nicolas Chamfort
Vladimir Nabokov
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Sarah Dessen
“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
Sarah Dessen, Just Listen