“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live…..the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

• Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
  
  
   “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”—C.S.Lewis
  
  
  you get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again….....
  
  
  

  I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  Oscar Wilde  
  

  Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. 

  -Douglas Coupland

  
  “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

  —	Mark Twain

  
  
  
  *concerning stagnancy*
  i have all these destructive young impulses
  and too few places to direct them
  and it’s a fucking shame
  i can see my own future spread out in front of me
  but it’s so easy to get lost when you know the way