There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . . Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Cassandra Clare

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

Mandy Moore

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Ted Nugent

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Marcus Aurelius

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

How the old mountains drip with sunset,And the brake of dun!How the hemlocks are tipped in tinselBy the wizard sun!How the old steeples hand the scarlet,Till the ball is full, --Have I the lip of the flamingoThat I dare to tell?Then, how the fire ebbs like billows,Touching all the grassWith a departing, sapphire feature,As if a duchess pass!How a small dusk crawls on the villageTill the houses blot;And the odd flambeaux no men carryGlimmer on the spot!Now it is night in nest and kennel,And where was the wood,Just a dome of abyss is noddingInto solitude! --These are the visions baffled Guido;Titian never told;Domenichino dropped the pencil,Powerless to unfold.

Emily Dickinson, THE COMING OF N

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

Primo Levi

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

Sherman Alexie