seventy-three

"I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them."
— John Ashbery

seventy-two

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

seventy-one

"Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity."

— 1 Timothy 4:12

seventy

"I love it when I read books or watch movies that force me to bawl my eyes out, pushing me almost to the verge of sobbing. There could be no similarities between your life and the story, but suddenly there is a strange connection that renders you incoherent."
— Unknown

sixty-nine

"The body holds meaning … when we probe beneath the surface of our obsession with weight, we will find that a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. Through her concern with her body she is expressing a serious concern about the state of her soul."
— Kim Chernin

sixty-eight

"Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
— Dale Carnegie

sixty-seven

"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

sixty-six

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

sixty-five

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anais Nin

sixty-four

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
— Anais Nin

sixty-three

"If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."
— John B. Gough

sixty-two

"To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting."
— E. E. Cummings

sixty-one

"The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last."
— Nicholas Sparks

sixty

"I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together."
— Emily Bronte

fifty-nine

"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it is lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do."
— John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society