"It's super sneaky so be super sneaky."
- Claire

"Take your risks now, as you grow older you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn’t even on."
- Amy Poehler

"I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest, the quote unquote 'Fantastic Mr. Fox.' And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself."
- Mr. Fox, Fantastic Mr. Fox

“She is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the hell she was thinking.” 
- Brian Andreas

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
- Theodore Roethke

"Love can be very simple. Like, the way you love your goldfish crackers...Goldfish crackers, as far as I can tell, are totally going to stick around in the world and always be a thing and so you can count on those goldfish crackers. And they won't, like, be texting their ex on Christmas Day...Goldfish crackers would not do that to you."
- Tracy Moore (via)

"Why be frightened of everything that you are not?  Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop.  Except in the Twilight series."
- Rosemarie Urquico, "A Girl You Should Date" (via)

"Behind the good desire to please everyone was the not-so-good desire to have everyone like you. Which is impossible. Even Jesus in his earthly life wasn't universally admired. Why should I be?"
- James Martin, SJ (via)

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has yet to come. We have only today, let us begin."
- Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think you're just so pleasant
I would like you for my own"
- She & Him, "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"

"Some people feel the rain.  Others just get wet."
- Bob Marley

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"We think we go from partner to partner because there will be someone 'better' for us.  In reality, no one is better for us, we just get better for ourselves...Relationships work when we sacrifice negative beliefs about ourselves, and in that process we become the best thing that's ever happened to anyone."
- C. Jane Kendrick (via)

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
- Marianne Williamson

"Adventure is worthwhile."
- Amelia Earhart

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
- Roy Croft

"If we love each other, God lives in us, and God's love is made perfect in us."
- 1 John 4:12

"Let go into the Mystery, let yourself go. You’ve got to open up your heart, that’s all I know. Trust what I say and do what you’re told, and baby, all your dirt will turn into gold.
- Van Morrison

"If we refuse to acknowledge Comic Sans' existence, maybe it will cease to be."
- MK

"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.  And I know you do the same things too, so we're really not that different, me and you."
- Collin Raye

"I've learned that you shouldn't ask questions you don't want the answers to.  Because it's nearly impossible to unknow something you know.  Even if your brain forgets it, your body remembers."
- Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls

“Don’t let hurricanes hold you back, 
raging rivers or heart attack.”
- Clem Snide, "Find Love"

“Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.” 
- Brian Andreas

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes habit."
- Vince Lombardi 

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
- James Baldwin

“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too."
- Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

"Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world."
- Mary Oliver, "The Ponds"