"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who come alive." - John Elderidge

"Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts." - Thomas Merton

"I believe in Christ as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see him, but because by him I see everything else." - CS Lewis

"In many instances, a slight exercise of the sense of humor would save much anxiety of the soul" - James Weldon Johnson

"It [is] the secrets of heaven and earth that I [desire] to learn; and whether it is the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupy me, still my enquiries are directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world." - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

"[I] felt as if a mist had been lifted from [my] eyes, enabling [me] to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality...like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known." - The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

"Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets." - Matthew 7:12

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. - Jimi Hendrix

"So when weakness turns my ego up/I know you'll count on the me from yesterday. If I turn into another/dig me up from what is covering the better part of me" - Incubus

"People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever." - Pride and Prejudice (Austen)