“Pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It’s hard to recognize that life isn’t a holding action, but a process. It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.com
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, 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
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”— Maya Angelou, goodreads.com
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”— Kiran Desai, amazon.com
“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain decade of life; it just lives in you until you learn how to cope with it or let it go.”— Hannah Hart, amazon.com
“You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can.”— Dan Howell, amazon.com
“I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now.”— Connor Franta, amazon.com
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being…”— Voltaire, amazon.com
“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“The silence between the notes makes the music. And lest we forget, the longer the silence, the more incredibly beautiful and powerful the music when it finally swells and the symphony goes on.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.”— Mhairi McFarlane, amazon.com
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com