Words worth keeping

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

I like good strong words that mean something…

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.