(3,451) Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
"The Forty Rules of Love" by Elif Shafak

(3,452) Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
L. M. Montgomery

(3,453) Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
D. W. Winnicott

(3,454) This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
Sarah Dessen

(3,455) Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.
Emery Allen

(3,456) When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfuss

(3,457) Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.
John Green

(3,458) I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.
Kiera Cass

(3,459) Life is beyond reason. That's why you must go on; if it's only to fulfill your destiny.
Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin

(3,460) Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin

(3,461) Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet.
The Dark Highlander, Karen Marie Moning

(3,462) A heart that loves makes magic of its own.
Kiss of the Highlander, Karen Marie Moning

(3,463) The good guys and bad guys aren't as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can't look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.
Shadowfever, Karen Marie Moning

(3,464) Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
Shadowfever, Karen Marie Moning

(3,465) Eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
Unknown

(3,466) Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy

(3,467) All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt

(3,468) When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

(3,469) The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

(3,470) Dare to dream again. For dreaming is the language of your soul, and nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.
Jacob Nordby

(3,471) Let someone love you just the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
Marc Chernoff

(3,472) The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

(3,473) At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love - just enough to feed the birds.
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

(3,474) They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

(3,475) Your tongue is like the red carpet. Make sure that whatever rolls off of it, makes others feel like royalty.
Fatima Shahnaz Ahmad

(3,476) A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of himself, something that withstands the test of time.
C. K. Webb

(3,477) It's not about 'having' time. It's about making time.
McKenna Meredith Hubbard

(3,478) When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African proverb

(3,479) Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop

(3,480) Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

(3,481) Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

(3,482) If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
Olin Miller

(3,483) I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

(3,484) This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls

(3,485) We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom.
Jack Kornfield

(3,486) Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

(3,487) Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
Joanne Harris

(3,488) A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
John le Carré

(3,489) If there is at least one person you've helped in life, then your life has been worthwhile.
L. Syndey Abel

(3,490) There is an enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton

(3,491) Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
Brandon Sanderson

(3,492) You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse, either.
Dean Koontz

(3,493) My life amounts to no more than one drop of a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
David Mitchell

(3,494) It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
Dalai Lama

(3,495) It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
John Guare

(3,496) The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it.
Socrates

(3,497) Someday this upside-down world will be turned right-side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
Randy Alcorn

(3,498) Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf

(3,499) Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Sarah Dessen

(3,500) From where we stand, the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Tony Hillerman