Dr. Seuss

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Lady Gaga

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

If you don't have any shadows you're not in the light.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

Aldous Huxley II

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Dorothy Parker II

The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

If I don't drive around the park,
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again,
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much,
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn…

Marcel Proust II

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Agatha Christie II

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

George Orwell II

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

War is peace. 
Freedom is slavery. 
Ignorance is strength

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Big Brother is Watching You.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

Arthur Schopenhauer II

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Life without pain has no meaning.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.