“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.”— Gordon Allport, amazon.com
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”— Plato, goodreads.com
“The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.”— James Rowland Angell, tumblr.com
“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day…and something good to happen.”— Ishmael Beah, amazon.com
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com