"I'm afraid that if we move, that this whole night will be only a bittersweet dream and that it will dissolve like . . . have you ever been outside on a spring morning in March, when it’s just cool enough for there to be a delicate covering of mist over the woods? I’m afraid that this moment will dissolve like that mist when the sun rises. So let’s not move. For one moment, let us pretend that this is real.”
"...sentimental children forever whining about how bitterly unfair your lives have been. Well perhaps it's escaped your notice but life isn't fair."
- Severus Snape
"Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."
- Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 7
"This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a
horrible kind. The man falling
isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they
thought their own environment couldn't supply them with.
So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started."
- Mr. Antolini, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24
"Happiness is here, right now if you stop resisting and start accepting."
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein
"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. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
- Steve Jobs
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
- Ghandi
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
- Winston Churchill
Not a call for gifts, but, you know, just in case. If you love me enough. Yeah, I didn't think so. But still.