" Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings. "

— Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

" New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. "

— Lao Tzu

" The heart was made to be broken. "

— Oscar Wilde

" If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. "

— Linda Sunshine

" There's no competition.Respectfully,you can never be me.Disrespectfully,I would never want to be you. "

— Anonymous

" Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! "

— swami vivekananda