My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Kahlil Gibran

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Steve Jobs

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You find happiness where you find it.

Anna Paquin

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

Sebastian Barry

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Goldwin Smith

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Wayne Dyer

As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

Origen