"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."
- Jess C. Scott
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
- Thomas Merton
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most succe..."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
- Edith Wharton
"Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpos..."
- Brené Brown
"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."
- Jodi Picoult
"To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this beco..."
- Criss Jami
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
- Rick Riordan
"When you can live forever what do you live for?"
- Stephenie Meyer
"O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and ..."
- Walt Whitman