Roy T. Bennett

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

Leonora Carrington

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

Francis of Assisi

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I write to discover what I think.

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless..We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful and merciful, active and reflective, kind and competitive. We expect to be inspired by mediocre appeals for excellence, to be made literate by illiterate appeals for literacy...to go to 'a church of our choice' and yet feel its guiding power over us, to revere God and to be God. Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

Abbi Glines

Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.

I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.

Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.

Kami Garcia

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

Margot Adler

The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humor. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.

When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are.

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful.

They might add that monotheism is a political and psychological ideology as well as a religious one, and that the old economic lesson that one-crop economies generally fare poorly also applies to the spiritual realm.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Graham Greene II

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Sarah J. Maas

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

"You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared." And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. "To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered."

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.

I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.