"Family isn't whose blood you carry, it's who you love and who loves you." - Jackie Chan “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, It’s about who came, and never left your side.” – unknown “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” - Haruki Murakami

I'm such a weird person... I literally don't have a favourite quote.

I have a lot of quotes. My senior yearbook quote was actually from an Edgar Allen Poe poem: "All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Others I really like - “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” - Edgar Allen Poe

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of wings.” - Robert Green Ingersoll

I went to see the movie "Edge of 17" and there was this line that touched m soul

"Everyone thinks that their life sucks, but some people are just better at hiding it."

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

• Arthur Rimbaud

“And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins”

• C.S. Lewis

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

• Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

"Its only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything." - Tyler Durden

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge

"There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it." -Warm Bodies (Book, not movie)

Take what you want, and pay for it.

"There is no hope but us. There is no mercy but us. There is no justice. There is just us. All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. ... What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?"

• Death, "Reaper Man" by Terry Pratchett

Of course, Death TALKS IN ALL CAPS, but I thought that might be a bit much.

From the Little Prince by Antoine St-Expury. I want to have that quote as a tattoo someday.

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Some Tumblr gems for y'all:

"any sentiment that prioritizes hard work over mental health or wellness is capitalist propaganda" "If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it then how bad of a decision can it really be?"

"And if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into a ditch" (stuck with me through the years)

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

sooo many but here's one that has been relevant over and over again and that always grounds me:

"You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time--of anything. If you are laughing, I defy you to be afraid." --Stephen Colbert

Not exactly a quote, but a line from Fantastic Beasts, so in a way I'm quoting the line.

"Worrying means you suffer twice." - Newt Scamander

Light cannot exist without darkness.

These violent delights have violent ends

One of my favorite quotes I actually found in an article I had to read for class last spring. I'm a little biased about this quote I guess as a Library and Information Science major, but I just thought the language was beautiful as well as the imagery.

"And so it went, generation after generation: libraries were built, and people knew that secreted within their walls a lifetime of glories awaited them in pictures and in words." - Sarah Williams Goldhagen

quoth the bell jar, shout out to sylvia plath

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out.

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

"Decide to be fine til the end of the week. Make yourself smile because... you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week. " Frank Devereaux (supernatural)