Eleven

"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."

--The Great Gatsby

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

--Confucius


"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
--Mark Twain

"If I am breathing,
if my heart still has a beat,
I am loving you."

--Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love."

--Sandra Bullock
Oscars acceptance speech for Best Actress

"If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining."

--Dave Dunseath

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

--Anne Frank

If you are weary
and your smile abandons you,
I will give you mine.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can feel the sun on my face, but I can’t see it rise or set. I want to see the world like everyone else, to see the sun, the rain, the music.

Oh I bet music looks beautiful."

--Sydney Wells, The Eye

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

--Stephen King

"…There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless."

--Sara Zarr

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

--Charles du Bois

^Yep, probably.

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

— Jane Austen