Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Source Unknown

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C.S. Lewis

When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better?... If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.

John Lancaster Spalding

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

Patrick Swayze

All salvation is temporary,' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.'

John Green

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

Ben Affleck

In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Instead, one by one those who could afford it began to sleep indoors in cool air-conditioned rooms, away from the mosquitoes and the flies...

Leila Aboulela

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sadhu Vaswani

My favorite thing about the holiday season is the lights! I love walking around with family, friends, and a cup of peppermint hot chocolate to look at all the beautiful lights and decorations.

Caroline Sunshine

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Wolf

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fuller

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle