Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore.

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

Love is a force of nature. However much we may want to, we can not command, demand, or take away love, any more than we can command the moon and the stars and the wind and the rain to come and go according to our whims.

- 'The Seven Natural Laws of Love’ by Deborah Anapol

My dearest - But what more is there to be said? The things one says are always inadequate: it's the touch of live hands, of lips pressed to lips that count. I want to hold you and say nothing.

- Anonymous

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

- Gilda Radner

Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom

Let's talk about me. The things that are me, that is all about me. What a wonderful me!

- custardbasket

You can lie to anyone else in the world, but you can’t lie to yourself. Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

- Point 3 of '30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself' by Marc
Photo Credits: Cristina Hoch

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

- Maria Robinson

He looks like he thinks way too much. Always stressing out about nothing, always worrying about something. Always trying to oversee the consequences of his actions, always thinking before doing and never the other way around. I recognize myself in him. I worry about so many things that I can’t possible live long enough from them all to actually happen to me. I know he does too. Maybe we should learn to go with the flow, deal with one thing at a time, let go and just breathe. Let’s just live, stranger.

- random-people

 

Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth; Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love; They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets; Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens; A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother; A dress that makes you feel a little like the goddess herself. Sometimes you keep falling, you don’t catch anything. Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them; Sometimes you don’t. sometimes they catch you.

- Francesca Lia Block

And now I realise how important it is to say these words, for many couples fall apart without them. It's hard to describe why, but when you've overcome the silent trauma of saying "I love you" out loud, you'll realise how meaningful they are. It brings you closer, deepens your connection and saying and hearing the words gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling. Eventually, you might even have the a habit of saying them every time you meet.

- custardbasket

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

 - Elder Richard G. Scott

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays, let them overtake me unexpectedly, waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!

- Ray Stannard Baker

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

- Bob Hope