Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Neil Gaiman

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Neil Gaiman

They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Ovid

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Jennifer Aniston

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Agnetha Faltskog

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Tony Kushner