one hundred twelve

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

one hundred eleven

"Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose."
— C.S Lewis

one hundred ten

"Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
— Sarah Dessen

one hundred nine

"We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid to age we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone, someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder, who doesn't humiliate you beyond repair...that's sweet."
— Daniel, P.S. I Love You

one hundred eight

"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."
— Adele

one hundred seven

"I couldn’t tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you."
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

one hundred six

"Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters."
— John Green

one hundred five

"I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

one hundred four

"Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven’t happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways."
— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet

one hundred three

"People come and go - they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in your favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past."
— Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

one hundred two

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia… You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
— John Green