(2,251)At any rate, that is happiness. To be dissolved into something complete and great.
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather

(2,252)She wasn't doing any thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
"A Girl I Knew" by J.D. Salinger

(2,253)He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun. Yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

(2,254)And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

(2,255)It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
"Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham

(2,256)There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
"All the Little Live Things" by Wallace Stegner

(2,257)Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question who wanted to spend his whole life answering.
"The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss

(2,258)In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank

(2,259)The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

(2,260)She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
"The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

(2,261)We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.
"Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by Tom Stoppard

(2,262)Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace

(2,263)Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel" by Milan Kundera

(2,264)Deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
"The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays" by Albert Camus

(2,265)Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
"Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks

(2,266)It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
"The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach

(2,267)Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
"The Complete English Poems" by John Donne

(2,268)Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

(2,269)Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
"Edgar Allen Poe: Completr Tales and Poems" by Edgar Allen Poe

(2,270)The only way to make sense  out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
"The Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan W. Watts

(2,271)The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
"Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust

(2,272)Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.
"Confessions" by Augustine

(2,273)I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

(2,274)Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" by William Shakespeare

(2,275)The purpose of art is to transfer feeling from one person's heart to another person's heart.
"How Literature Saved My Life" by David Shields

(2,276)But there is only thing that has power completely, and this is love.
"Cry, The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton

(2,277)I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

(2,278)A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled.
"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories" by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

(2,279)The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
"Don Quixote de La Mancha/Modern Library" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

(2,280)Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
"Under the Glacier" by Halldour Laxness

(2,281)There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" by William Shakespeare

(2,282)How easy it was to lie to strangers,  to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined.
"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(2,283)Your eyes are full of language.
"Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters" by Anne Sexton

(2,284)When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.
"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

(2,285)Beauty remains, even in misfortune.
"The Diary of A Young Girl" by Anne Frank

(2,286)Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own senario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don't know that is ehat they're trapped by, their little script.
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe

(2,287)Everyone of us is like a man  who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wakes up to find that he knows nothing.
"The Life of the Mind" by Plato

(2,288)The course of true love never did run smooth.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare

(2,289)Change before you have to.
"Winning" by Jack Welch

(2,290)Before you find your soul mate, you must first find your soul.
"Brain Drain--The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life" by Charles F. Glassman

(2,291)How sad if we pass through life and never see it with they eyes of a child.
"The Tao of Now: Daily Wisdom From Mystics, Sages, Poets, and Saints" by Josh Baran

(2,292)I'm on a path to being a person that I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.
Troye Sivan

(2,293)Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren't actually real.
Zoe Sugg

(2,294)I don't talk to ugly girls because I don't think they exist.
Caspar Lee

(2,295)Normalness leads to sadness.
Phil Lester

(2,296)Things haven't always been this bad; therefore, they won't always be this bad.
Carrie Hope Fletcher

(2,297)If life gives you lemons, stick them in your bra and work it.
Tyler Oakley

(2,298)The only ugly girls are the ones that don't realize that beauty comes from within.
Dan Howell

(2,299)Some days success just means not giving up.
Steve Roggenbuck

(2,300)Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they're going to have better ideas than you. Keep an open mind to everyone.
Markiplier, YouTuber