Emily Bronte

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Robert Fulghum

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):

1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first worked you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Arundhati Roy

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. 

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

Some things come with their own punishments.

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

Jodi Picoult 

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong. 

Woody Allen

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream

Living is messy.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

Anaïs Nin II

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them."

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Henry van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Love is the heart's immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Bob Marley

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Love the life you live.
live the life you love.

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

Sarah Dessen

Don't think or judge, just listen.

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.