"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." 
― Paulo Coelho, Alchemist

"I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.'

...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth." 
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

"It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods." 
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"For you, in my respect, are all the world; Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?" 
― Willilam Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it."
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars