“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.com
“It’s a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.”— David Duchovny, amazon.com
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, they tell me, not the end.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“See, sometimes courage isn’t climbing Mount Everest or changing the world. Sometimes your mountain to climb is made up of weekdays and months, made up of pushing yourself forward even when you want to nestle into the past. Sometimes changing the world means changing your world, as gradually as you n…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Trust that some of the best days of your life haven’t even happened yet. There are going to be parties that leave you dancing until 6am, spontaneous adventures that teach you more than you ever learned in a classroom. There are going to be nights that will stay burned beneath your eyelids, memories…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“And I'll tell you this, Amir Jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com
“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting,…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com