If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

Kurt Vonnegut

Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectation that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them.

Sara Paddison

You don’t know what my state of mind towards you is. You don’t know how you haunt and bewilder me.

Charles Dickens

I gather each sound you left behind and stretch them on my bed… each night I breathe you and become high

sonia sanchez

If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts.
But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

B. Lester

But leaving is a powerful word. It can be powerful in the sense of missing what is behind you, and in the sense of starting something new. Once you take that first step, confidence eventually dissipates regret and empowerment heals pain. Please remember that you are free. Free to make decisions and to speak and think a certain way; free to dream and own your feelings and hold out for what your heart truly wants. Allow yourself to embrace peace and be confident in taking what is yours.
I hope you learn to believe in lying on the beach at night and not having to speak a single word. I hope you soon yearn for sleepovers on trampolines and road trips with stories, holding hands and kisses on the forehead. There exists so much more than taking off clothes and empty words. Your body is a precious gift that should ignite the most selfless of loves beneath another’s touch. Don’t ever let someone take it for granted or hurt it or use it for his own gain.
You deserve to have a relationship that will make your toes curl and words stagger. One that will grow in patience and endure in pain, relieve fear and give hope. Be willing to wait for the one who cares more about you than your past, who aches when your heart swells, and who lives inside your happiness.

Chris Youngblood

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.

James Joyce

If you don’t like the way I look, you can go in that room over there and hang out with all the other people who are waiting for me to give a fuck. I am not here for your approval, I am here to live my life, to find joy, and experience my journey. I deserve to feel and believe that I am beautiful whether you agree or not.

Annie Segarra

In order to properly care for things they must be loved & touched…

Nikki Giovanni 

I want to be a human above the body, uprooted and right, a fold of pleas released, but I am a black wound, what’s left of the deed.

Terrance Hayes, from “Cocktails with Orpheus”

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini