G. K. Chesterton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

- G. K. Chesterton, author, journalist

William Shakespeare

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Morrie Schwartz

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

– Morrie Schwartz, teacher and author

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”

- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author

Plato

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

– Plato, ancient Greek philosopher and author

Oscar Wilde

“The heart was made to be broken”

– Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Jennifer Johnston

"Some people are born old and never get any younger."

- 'How Many Miles To Babylon?' by Jennifer Johnston

W. B. Yeats

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"

- 'The Second Coming' by W. B. Yeats

Feeling a little bit apocalyptic today. If you are too, read this poem. Terrifying.

William Shakespeare

"The dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Sue Monk Kidd

"The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail."

- 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd

Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

– Maya Angelou, poet and author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne, author

George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

– George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Tryon Edwards

"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

C. S. Lewis

“You don’t have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.”

– C. S. Lewis, author

William Shakespeare

"'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Publilius Syrus

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Adele

"Sometimes it lasts, in love, but sometimes it hurts instead."

- Adele, 'Someone Like You'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Plutarch

"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

- Plutarch, ancient Greek historian

Laurence J. Peter

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

- Laurence J. Peter, teacher and writer

Kin Hubbard

"It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist, journalist

William Shakespeare

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Sue Monk Kidd

"It's something everybody wants - for someone to see that hurt done to them and set it down like it matters."

- 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd

Thomas Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Edison, inventor

Ambrose Bierce

"Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist

Vincent Van Gogh

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."

- Vincent Van Gogh, artist

Victor Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

- Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, human rights activist

John Updike

"All that lives must die. To waste this life in fretful care for the next, or for a future calamity - that, too, is a sin. Birth lays upon us the natural commandment to love each day and what it brings."

- 'Gertrude and Claudius' by John Updike

William Shakespeare

"To be or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare