Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Neil Gaiman
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
Junot Diaz
You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.
Kay Robertson
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
Amy Tan
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Henry James
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
George Herbert Mead
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi