ninety-nine

"Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen

ninety-eight

"He is beautiful and fascinating—like a book I read when I was a little girl but forgot I knew until I heard it again."
— Maggie Stiefvater

ninety-seven

"Think back and replay your year; if it doesn’t bring you tears of either joy or sadness, consider it wasted."
— Ally McBeal

ninety-six

"Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs."
— Ally Condie

ninety-five

"Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place."
— I Wrote This For You

ninety-four

"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who come alive."
— Howard Thurman

ninety-three

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
— Jack Kerouac

ninety-two

"I am drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock."
— Helena Bonham Carter

ninety-one

"Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
— Jonathan Safran Foer

ninety

"I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy. You know, we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that fixes everything. But happiness is a mood and a condition, it’s not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry; it’s not permanent, it comes and goes, and that’s okay. And I feel like if people thought of it that way, they’d find happiness a lot more often."
— One Tree Hill

eighty-nine

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
— Hermann Hesse

eighty-eight

"I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile."
— Abbey Lee Kershaw

eighty-seven

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
— Ashley Smith

eighty-six

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

eighty-five

"I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness."
— Drew Barrymore

eighty-four

"If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway."
— Mother Teresa

eighty-three

"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
— Milan Kundera

eighty-two

"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."
— Hermann Hesse

eighty-one

"Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, he’s still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you."
— Greg Behrendt

eighty

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

seventy-nine

"Women are seen so much as public property, as objects to look at and judge, that people actually think it’s appropriate to go out of their way to comment on women’s appearance. They think it’s their right."
— Jessica Velenti

seventy-eight

"In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about ever again. But you do."
— C.S. Lewis, The Wonder Years

seventy-seven

"People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be."
— Don Draper

seventy-six

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, non apologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good’."
— Stephen Cove

seventy-five

"To you I give my life, not just the parts I want to. To you I sacrifice these dreams that I hold on to. Because Your thoughts are higher than mine, Your words are deeper than mine, Your love is stronger than mine. This is no sacrifice, here's my life."
— Jason Upton, No Sacrifice

seventy-four

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I loved her and that was the beginning of everything."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald