Put the right letters together and make a better day – Prince

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library – Frank Zappa

Great minds think differently – Ari Marcovski

It’s hard work, and great art to make life not so serious – from the movie Hotel New Hampshire

In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty – Bob Marley

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky – Rainer Maria Rilke (from Letters to a Young Poet)

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty – Rumi

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard – Winnie the Pooh

Mientras uno está vivo, uno debe amar lo más que pueda – Jacobo Morales (Puerto Rican artist featured in Bad Bunny’s Baile Inolvidable (The Unforgettable Dance))

I tend to think of human beings as huge, rubbery test tubes, too, with chemical reactions seething inside. When I was a boy, I saw a lot of people with goiters. So did Dwayne Hoover, the Pontiac dealer who is the hero of this book. Those unhappy Earthlings had such swollen thyroid glands that they seemed to have zucchini squash growing from their throats. All they had to do in order to have ordinary lives, it turned out, was to consume less than one-millionth of an ounce of iodine every day. My own mother wrecked her brains with chemicals, which were supposed to make her sleep. When I get depressed, I take a little pill, and I cheer up again. And so on. So it is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day – Kurt Vonnegut (from Breakfast of Champions)

Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it – John Eldridge (from Wild At Heart)

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice – it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed! – Ronny Cammareri in Moonstruck

Tauriel: Why does it hurt so much? Thranduil: Because it was real – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it – Mary Oliver

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering – Tom Waits

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it – Henry Thoreau

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