The human heart has hidden treaures.
In secret kept, in silence sealed.
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures whose charm were broken if revealed.
— Jane Eyre
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
— Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
— Margaret Peters
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
