“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world...”— Nelson Mandela, db.nelsonmandela.org
“Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!”— Ludwig Jacobowski, quoteinvestigator.com
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”— Earl Wilson, amazon.com
“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”— Roger Babson, goodreads.com
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.”— Johnny Depp, huffingtonpost.co.uk
“It’s a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it’s not. I think it’s impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they’re happening.”— Chris Crutcher, amazon.com
“Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.”— Harry Stack Sullivan, facebook.com
“Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”— Roland Barthes, amazon.com
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see.”— Andre Dubus, amazon.com
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”— Jordan Belfort, facebook.com