George Eliot

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

- George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

George Eliot

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

- George Eliot, author

Khalil Gibran

"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- 'The Prophet' by Khalil Gibran

Mark Twain

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."

- Mark Twain, author

Jules Renard

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."

- Jules Renard, author

R. K. Milholland

"There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses."

- R. K. Milholland, webcomic author

Khalil Gibran

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Gemma Hayes

"You need the darkness if you want to see stars."


- Gemma Hayes, 'Ruin'

Steve Moakler

"The human heart is a scary part, in fact
Because I could break you, and you could break me back."


- Steve Moakler, 'Hesitate'

Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Lois McMaster Bujold

"If you can't do what you want, do what you can."

- "Memory" by Lois McMaster Bujold

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher and poet

St. Vincent

"Forgive the kids for they don't know how to live."


- St. Vincent, 'Cruel'

Restless Heart

"For every heart you break you pay the price."


- Restless Heart, 'The Bluest Eyes In Texas'

George Eliot

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

- George Eliot, author

Khalil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Joy Williams

"Everyone is every one of us."


- Joy Williams, 'We Are'

George Santayana

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain, author

Edward R. Murrow

"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men."

- Edward R. Murrow, journalist

The Beatles

"It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out."

- The Beatles, 'Strawberry Fields Forever'

Chuck Palahniuk

"Which is worse: Hell or nothing?"

- Chuck Palahniuk, journalist, satirist and novelist

Lord Acton

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

- Lord Acton, historian, politician and author

Jules Renard

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."

- Jules Renard, author

The Simpsons

"You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way."

- Homer Simpson, 'The Simpsons,' created by Matt Groening

Brianna Gaither

"Where has it brought you and what has it taught you?
Has it made you feel more beautiful, more beautiful at all?"

- Brianna Gaither, 'Let It Go'

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., jurist

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

R. K. Milholland

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it."

- R. K. Milholland, webcomic author

Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost, poet

Anatole France

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist