“Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty, and want are the best school for the soldier.”— Napoléon Bonaparte, amazon.com
“...I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”— Lois McMaster Bujold, amazon.com
“You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.”— Robert Tew, goodreads.com
“Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.”— Robert Tew, goodreads.com
“It takes a strong person to do their own thing and not wait for anybody else to validate their existence.”— Steven Aitchison, goodreads.com
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.”— Leonardo Dicaprio, twitter.com
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”— Aldoux Huxley, amazon.com
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly…”— Lawrence M. Krauss, goodreads.com
“Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a s…”— Ben Okri, amazon.com
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”— Horace Walpole, en.wikiquote.org
“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life, I find.”— John F. Kennedy, goodreads.com
“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”— Lord Byron, goodreads.com
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”— Bob Goff, twitter.com