The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love. - Joyce Carol Oates
Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well. - Vicktor Alexander
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. - Marilyn Monroe
When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them. - Jalaluddin Rumi
It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it. - D.H. Lawrence
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty. - Xiaolu Guo
We are all different. Donβt judge, understand instead. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart