We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17406-there-comes-a-point-when-you-just-love-someone-not
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
(Know of any SM toys that are completely foolproof?)
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/876-to-be-yourself-in-a-world-that-is-constantly-trying
I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
– Mae West
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1600-i-wrote-the-story-myself-it-s-about-a-girl-who
I will speak ill of no man, not even in matter of truth; but rather excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasion speak all the good I know of everybody.
– Benjamin Franklin
http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/journeys-vol-three/2/
Not easy to state the change you made.
If I’m alive now, then I was dead,
– Sylvia Plath, Love Letter
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8498455-Love_Letter-by-Sylvia_Plath