Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Samuel Butler

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

Hermann Hesse

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

Harry S Truman

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Pratibha Patil

When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.

Susan Anton

They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence.

Flor Hernandez

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'

America Ferrera

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life.

Steve Maraboli

It is exactly our sense of haste and impatience that impedes us from seeing the true beauty life has to offer.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Jean Shinoda Bolen