Latest Quotes

“She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.”

— Tyler Kent White, instagram.com

“And kid, you’ve got to love yourself. You’ve got wake up at four in the morning, brew black coffee, and stare at the birds drowning in the darkness of the dawn. You’ve got to sit next to the man at the train station who’s reading your favorite book and start a conversation. You’ve got to come home a…”

— Unknown, black coffee at 4am:

“The day will be what you make it — so rise like the sun, and burn.”

— William C. Hannan, The Infinite Traveler

“If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.”

— Joel Osteen, The Power of I Am: Two Words That Will Change Your Life Today

“Remind yourself every day that you are here on earth for a reason. You have talents and qualities that can bring goodness to others. A kind smile, a good word, a loving gesture - simple things that can change people.”

— Gino Whitley, fromvictoryroad.com

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Finally, surrender became not just inevitable but exhilarating. I didn’t want to hold on to anything anymore. I wanted to fall, and I already had. And I knew that this time, too, I would be O.K.”

— Natalie Lindeman, Celebrating the Upside of an Emotional Plunge

“Maybe it was the way he said, ‘I’d rather spend my summer with you than any other girl.’ Maybe it was how being around him made me forget the brace and the wounds, made me feel whole and unbroken.”

— Natalie Lindeman, Celebrating the Upside of an Emotional Plunge

“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you in the very quick and…”

— John Green, Colin, An Abundance Of Katherines

“I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if shed taken the part of him that cr…”

— John Green, Colin, An Abundance Of Katherines

“But the pleasure isn't owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”

— Philip Roth, The Human Stain

“Most people I know have a Jeremy in their lives, someone whose consequence a label can’t capture.”

— Jordana Narin, No Labels, No Drama, Right?

“But by not calling someone, say, ‘my boyfriend,’ he actually becomes something else, something indefinable. And what we have together becomes intangible. And if it’s intangible it can never end because officially there’s nothing to end. And if it never ends, there’s no real closure, no opportunity t…”

— Jordana Narin, No Labels, No Drama, Right?

“There is't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, Where She Went

“I run my finger along her neck, her jawline, and then cup her chin in my hand. And stop. We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together.”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, Where She Went

“Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge”

— Gayle Forman, Adam, Where She Went

“But now, more than three years after our first kiss and more than a year after our first time, I’m still not over the possibility of him, the possibility of us. And he has no idea.”

— Jordana Narin, No Labels, No Drama, Right?

“And in the end, my married friends were right: There may be a limit to passion, but love flourishes.”

— Marc Jaffe, Finding Equilibrium in Seesawing Libidos

“I believed I should not allow her to love me . . . But she was also a woman, beautiful and vibrant, and I was a man — in a wheelchair, true — but a man full of heat and desire that sometimes rendered the chair irrelevant.”

— Gary Presley, Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?