And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.
-- from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabelled-- The world regards such a person as the police an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control.
-- T.H. Huxley

What made me feel crazy was that I was acting like the truth was nothing and the lies and the bullshit were real. The truth was cold and hard and it was easier to look the other way or to pretend, but that didn't keep it from being the truth.
-- from Junk by Kevin Canty

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
--from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

There are only degrees of madness and whether you are below it or above it is your own conscious state of mind.
--(unknown)

Even in the midst of all the trouble we are now in, even though no one knows which way to turn and which way to go, there still persists the notion that we must get there with ever greater speed.
--E.B. White

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense; glory in all facets of pleasure and beauty that the world reveals to you through the several means of contact that Nature provides.
--Helen Keller

Rhapsody on a Windy Night

Twelve o'clock
Along the reaches of the street
Held in lunar synthesis
And all lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of the memory
And all its clear relations,
- Its divisions,
Definate precisions.
Every streetlamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum
And through the spaces of the dark
The midnight shakes my memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
--T.S. Eliot

You think that everyone but you is strong and sure, when really they're as weak as babies and scared and kind of hungry all the time. But they strike a little path and put one foot in front of the other. It's a risk, but if you keep moving, you find things that need doing, things that you can put to rights. You get courage from moving.
--from What a Woman Must Do by Faith Sullivan

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
--from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

There was nowhere to go from here. She could walk off in the woods and just lie down, one of those unsolved cases... She thought of that the rain would sound like, the first drops filtering through the trees, hitting the leaves by her ears. She saw herself lying there. If she stayed unfound the leaves would grow up through her chest, through her ribs, a little empty cave of bones.
--from A Stranger in the World by Kevin Canty

The sins of others are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
--Seneca

It's wonderful to be kissed by somebody.
--Helen Fisher, PhD, professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J.

They're all dead, they just don't know it yet.
--Eric Draven in "The Crow"

What are you supposed to be, a clown or something?
Sometimes.
--Sara and Eric in "The Crow"

I don't need no arms around me
And I don't need no drugs to calm me...
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No, don't think I need anything at all.
All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.
--from Another Brick in the Wall Part Three by Pink Floyd

I think I need a hug.
--Donkey in Shrek

It was as if what she had considered to be her self all these years was only a magnified detail of an enormous painting whose entire composition and narritive she had never before known existed, let alone seen.
--from I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn

...I hate that he wants to know, to take all of me, to leave me with nothing.
--from I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn

Anything that cares only for beauty can't handle getting close, because from close up, nothing is only beautiful.
--from Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to suprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
--Lester Burnam in American Beauty

It was one of those days where it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air-- you can almost hear it, right? And this bag was just dancing with me, like a little kid begging me to play with it... for fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things and this incredibally benevolent force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know, but it helps me remember. I need to remember. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it and my heart is just going to cave in.
--Ricky Fitz in American Beauty

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them, there ought to be as many for love.
--Margaret Atwood

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