“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”— Marilyn Monroe, amazon.com
“Recycling and speed-limits are bullshit. They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”— John Green, amazon.com
“...we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“That’s the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what’s going on.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.”— Glennon Melton, amazon.com
“No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”— Adelaide Anne Procter, amazon.com
“I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”— Peter Cameron, amazon.com
“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity and just hold on.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.”— Adam Johnson, amazon.com
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live, breathe before it’s gone.”— Rumi, billmoyers.com
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“I have learnt that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com