“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”— Susan Sontag, graduationwisdom.com
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Don’t get caught up in your story. When bad things happen, it’s very easy to get caught up in the drama. We can get a lot of things from repeating our story to others such as sympathy, support, and encouragement. But wallowing in that story keeps you living in the past and not focused on being prese…”— Afi Harrington, tinybuddha.com
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ev…”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“A civilization that relentlessly destroys the living land it inhabits is not well acquainted with truth, regardless of how many supported facts it has amassed regarding the calculable properties of its world.”— David Abram, amazon.com
“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surr…”— David Abram, amazon.com
“I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”— Fritz Perls, echopen.wordpress.com
“For the warrior, there is no ‘better’ or ‘worse’: everyone has necessary gifts for his particular path.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.com