“You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.”— Courtney Kang, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”— Walter Mosley, amazon.com
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made…”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com
“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I blamed you so long for who I became It was much easier than facing that I allowed myself to become that”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“That’s the worst thing about being young. You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“Don't change yourself to win someone's heart. Stay true and you'll find someone who likes you for being you.”— The Good Quote, instagram.com
“When we are no longer able to change a situation–just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer–we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com
“We should never despair, our situation before has been unproven and has changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.”— George Washington, mountvernon.org
“Has your ex started losing weight, gotten a tan, and started playing that sport you mentioned wanting to try? Better yet, does he seem intent on sharing it with you? Often in an effort to right the wrongs of a failed relationship, an ex will try to change all of the things that their ex didn’t like…”— Elizabeth Stone, thoughtcatalog.com
“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You don’t feel like you’re constantly trying to change him or compromising yourself to stay with him. You don’t view him as a fixer upper or a starter boyfriend. Instead, he is who and what you want and your core values jive.”— Clayton Olson, thoughtcatalog.com
“He doesn't try to change you. He knows you're messier than him, that you always need a pet cat, and can't cook to save your life, and all of that is all right by him.”— Amy Odell, cosmopolitan.com
“Don't get too comfortable with the ones around you, people switch up in a heartbeat.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com