Assorted wisdom ....

"Love is irrational, I remind myself. The more you love someone, the less sense anything makes."

Stephenie Meyer

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."

W.C. Fields

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

C.S. Lewis

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston S. Churchill

"I am not young enough to know everything."

Oscar Wilde

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

Stephen King

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

May Sarton

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

Mark Twain

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."

Alan Moore

"Some books should be tasted
some devoured,
but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly."

Cornelia Funke

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

J.D. Salinger

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Joan Crawford

"When you can live forever what do you live for?"

Stephenie Meyer

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Plato

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"

Mother Teresa

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

William Shakespeare

"Life sucks, and then you die."

Stephenie Meyer

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

Paul Sweeney

"We love the things we love for what they are."

Robert Frost

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."

Lemony Snickett

"You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence."

Stephenie Meyer

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, for lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, for a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, for Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, for poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."

Audrey Hepburn

"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

Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Douglas Adams

Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

Jodi Picoult

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

Jodi Picoult

aimgirl

" I said that I don't need you
But I'm a liar
I swear I do
I do

Strip away vanity
Just as you consume me
Broken smile, starless sky
Save it all,
Say goodbye ... "

aimgirl

Haruki Murakami

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that" he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else .... "

Haruki Murakami

Dean Young

" ... but nothing can be taken back,
not the leaves by the trees, the rain
by the clouds. You want to take back
the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel
remains in the wound, some mud."

Dean Young

On anticipation

"She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied."

Jack Whyte

"Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming."

Nicholas Sparks

Jonathan Hull

"I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing."

Jonathan Hull

William Shakespeare

"The best is yet to be."

William Shakespeare