"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."

- David Grayson

"The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you."

- David Nicholls (via quotewhore)

"Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."

- David P. Gardner

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau (via quote-book)

(via djinlighten)