Favorite Quotes

"Every night, I come to the same place and wait until the sky catches up with my mood." -Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

"...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through..." -David Bowie

"I figured it all to be love, but this isn't lovely." 

-Leaving Tonight, The Neighbourhood 

"We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know." -Voltaire

"It is only in adventure that people succeed in knowing themselves- in finding themselves."

-Andre Gide

"Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time." 

-Johanna de Silentio

"This world is not made of shades of grey. It is made of colours like azure and coral and emerald and marigold. But it insists on painting everything in black and white and fitting it into boxes that it understands. Do not do that to yourself. Paint your personality a million different colours. Leave them scratching their heads, unsure of how to handle the magic that you are." -Nikita Gill

"You think it's cool to hate things. And it's not. It's boring. Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't." -Liberal Arts (film)

"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... and one fine morning- we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don't feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid's runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, they to be larger than you are particularly when it's difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate when it's done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain ("I'm not a big one for paying compliments..."), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain." -Jonathan Carroll

"I behold the beauty but the beauty got a hold on me." -Anna Sun, Walk the Moon

"You never knew the city could create such calm." -Nova Scotia, Magic Man