“Even if you don't believe in God and you're praying to the Universe, you're being honest with yourself. Putting your energy into the world shows that you are open to change, to learn, and to receive help.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“He'll stare at the house for a long time, not remembering / the aftertaste of ice-cube tray popsicles, / searching for something he can call his. He'll have to drive away, like he always does-- / because your'e gone, and you've been gone, / and anyway, he was wrong about the color of your eyes.”— Kara Searcy, google.com
“I suppose it was just old, I suppose it was just its time, or maybe it was only some stray image, twisted minute of a dream, broken bit of a story I've taken for memory. I could do it, I think. It's like religion that way. You simply begin to believe.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“Isn’t it refreshing to know that just because we’ve always been a certain way, it doesn’t mean we have to stay that way forever?”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those da…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Funny how time and distance change you the road you take don't always lead you home You can start a love with good intentions and then you look up and it's gone”— Miranda Lambert, amazon.com
“From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don’t like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there’s no change. It’s so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you’re afraid of something, f…”— Marina Abramovic, theguardian.com
“I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accom…”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”— Keary Taylor, amazon.com
“It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”— Donald Trump, twitter.com
“Black women, we see you. We love you. We are with you and we believe in your leadership.”— Common, billboard.com
“We can’t affect national narrative, we can’t affect national legislation that comes down and affects local people if local people don’t push back and take a stand about what's happening in local communities,”— Chelsea Fuller, usatoday.com
“...you can truly grieve for every officer who has been lost in the line of duty in this country and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.”— John Stewart, thewrap.com
“It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us,' We’re going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished.”— Beyoncé Knowles, beyonce.com