Audrey Niffenegger

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

L. J. Smith

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song. only you can understand.

 People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone.

 I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else.

When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten.

I'm going to kiss you... until you faint.

People Die...
Beauty Fades...
Love Changes...
And You Will Always Be Alone

Haruki Murakami

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. 
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.

Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

André Breton

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

Words make love with one another.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Dalai Lama--Tenzin Gyatso

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Love is the absence of judgment.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

Mitch Albom

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Love wins, love always wins.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Rita Mae Brown

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Santosh Kalwar

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.

Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake.

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.