#inspirational

"Love is photogenic, it develops in the dark."

"I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?"

"We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love."

"Stay in love."

"The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today."

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

"If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too."

"I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."

"If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness."

"[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived."

"Just hope. Hope is filled with power."

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."

"When you think a positive thought, you become positive."

"If you want peace, fill your mind with peaceful thoughts."

"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."

"Peace is the inner silence that calms all outer noises."

"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you."