My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

Johnny Depp

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

Nicholas Sparks

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Norman Mailer

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

John Updike

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

You have to love something before you can hate it.

Nicholas Sparks

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.

Nicholas Sparks

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

Nicholas Sparks

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

Albert Camus

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rita Mae Brown

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Sylvia Plath

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

John Steinbeck

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Woody Allen

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

Gautama Buddha

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

John Grisham

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

T S Eliot

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Johnny Cash

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Charlie Chaplin

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Sherman Alexie

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

Carlos Castaneda

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Nicholas Sparks

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love the life you live. live the life you love.

Bob Marley

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Marilyn Monroe

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paulo Coelho

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Nora Roberts

Every great love starts with a great story...

Nicholas Sparks

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke