Dreams

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike

Luxury

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

Minds

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -Henry Thomas Buckle

This Hole

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? -Jeanette Winterson

Never Started

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. -J.R.R. Tolkien

In Disguise

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -Margaret Atwood

A Secure Future

In reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. -Jon Krakauer

The Journey

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Your Destiny

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. -Gregory Maguire

Wild Places

The mind I love must have wild places. -Katherine Mansfield

Be A Child

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. -Bob Newhart

Love

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. -Daphne du Maurier

Once Upon A Time

We need books, time, and silence. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever. -Philip Pullman

Insanity

I don't suffer from my insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. -Sherrilyn Kenyon

Look Around

To the men of our century I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. -Leo Tolstoy

Better

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -Mae West

On The Road

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. -Jack Kerouac

End In Sight

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

Separation

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

Revealed

People do not change, they are merely revealed. -Anne Enright

Trust Your Heart

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. -E.E. Cummings

My Country

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. -Virginia Woolf

Evidence

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Too Far

Going too far and caring too much about a subject is the best way to make friends. -Sarah Vowell

Compassion

Compassion is the basis of morality. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Pretend

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. -Cassandra Clare

No Mistakes

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes. -Joseph Conrad