“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me. Love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person. Love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of. Love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak kness when they walk into a room and smile at you.” ~The OC

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.” ~George Santayana

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ~Jonathan Safran Foer

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

“Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ~Steve Jobs

“It’s nice to pretend to be important, but it’s more important to pretend to be nice” ~Dale Carnegie

“Adulthood ultimately means becoming a hypocrite on your own terms.” ~Merlin Mann