“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com
“Life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“I am drawn to stories where people can tell me what happened when everything fell apart. And not so much that their life became a total wreck, but how life unfolded and did not match up with their expectations.”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.”— H.G. Wells, amazon.com
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go. That's when it counts.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali, newspapers.com
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com