There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. ― Joe L. Wheeler

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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ― Eric Hoffer

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There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. ― Hubert Selby Jr

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Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time. ― Jandy Nelson

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It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ― Jackson Pearce

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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. ― Susanna Kearsley

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When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected. — Laverne Cox

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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. — bell hooks

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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. ― William Golding

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