“Was there such a night? It's a thrill I still don't quite believe,
But after you were gone there was still some stardust on my sleeve.”

— Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun Lyrics

“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." 

―Philo of Alexandria

Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space.
He turned around and pointed, revealing all the human race.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place.

―Yes, Close to the Edge lyrics

Give me a shot at the night
Give me a moment, some kinda mysterious

― The Killers, Shot at the Night lyrics

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
―F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music. The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself." 
―Henry Miller

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, 
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 
― Psalm 8:3-4

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“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.” 
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” 
― Leo Tolstoy

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” 

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

As her love ended, his had just begun. They were painfully unaware of how she was his answer, as he was hers." 

― Yasmine Petrov, Terribly Tiny Tales

“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.” 

“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.” 

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.” 

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Where there's a will, there's a way, kind of beautiful

― Avicii, Waiting for Love lyrics