“Be the girl who travels and reawaken your sense of hope in the world. Let it change you, transform you, and give you a sort of longing that few other things ever will.”— Jerrica Peterson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have faith in your strength, in your ability to rise back up after the fall, in your persistence to fight through the worst days of your life and in your courage to start over. I have faith that you will find your way out of the darkness and slowly let the light back in. I have faith that you will…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“I don't broadcast every high and I don't hide every low. I'm trying to live, I'm not trying to convince the world I have a life.”— Rob Hill Sr., twitter.com
“Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken' on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so ar…”— Baz Luhrmann, amazon.com
“The spectacular truth is — and this is something that your DNA has known all along— the very atoms of your body — the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on — were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you…”— Gerald D. Waxman, amazon.com
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“We don’t always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel.”— Scott Hildreth, amazon.com
“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“He is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically, a sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.”— Dorothea Tanning, theguardian.com
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”— James Agee, amazon.com