“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”— Katharine Hepburn, thecultureconcept.com
“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”— Wilt Chamberlain, amazon.com
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“I like to think the world wasn’t ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn’t ready for the world. I’ve always arrived too late for my life.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I’m not a ‘little bit’ kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.”— Elaine Stritch, people.com
“I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy.”— Jean-Luc Godard, Patricia Franchini, Jean Seberg, amazon.com
“It seems to me that I’m a tourist to life…I’m an observer of it.”— Isabella Rossellini, indexmagazine.com
“One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giv…”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”— Nikki Giovanni, tor.com
“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.”— Caroline Myss, wordsofwomen.co