“I appreciate the silent struggles, challenges, pain, and frustration you've dealt with to bring you to this new day. Life was never meant to be easy, and it rarely is. Good luck with everything today.”— Peter Daou, twitter.com
“Well, HAFIZ, Life’s a riddle—give it up: There is no answer to it but this cup.”— Hafiz of Persia, poetryfoundation.org
“Make friends outside your bubble. The more you do, the more you will grow.”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org
“I know Bill Clinton said the price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change, but I don’t think Bill Clinton ever lost sleep figuring out how to qualify for a mortgage as a single woman in a town where a car parking space can go for a hundred grand.”— Laura Jane Williams, redonline.co.uk
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”— Rachel Carson, amazon.com
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”— Jackie Robinson, jackierobinson.com
“If we were vampires and death was a joke, we'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke... laugh at all the lovers and their plans, I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand. Maybe time running out is a gift.”— Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, open.spotify.com
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com
“Human lives are only error And with knowledge, death prevails.”— Friedrich Schiller, schillerinstitute.org
“There’s this weird idea that success is a doorway, and once open, the path beyond is straight and clear. But success is just a moment, a step. The forward road comes from continuing to try—and fail. Failure and rejection don’t cease to be a part of it, unless you stop trying to grow/reach/make/move.”— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com
“I stopped feeling bad about the prospect of letting myself down. I welcomed a future in which I failed.”— Katie Heaney, tinyletter.com
“We have made such a mess of the world in the rest of our lives that preserving a portion of nature with our deaths seems like small recompense.”— Richard Conniff, nytimes.com
“It is never nothing to be alive and on this planet and able to make words. It is never nothing to have survived pain, to have kept yourself going, to be this tough thing who is a miracle. I am saying this to you. I’ve had to say it to myself. You are something.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“But you don’t know what you can do until you try it. And trying is the reason you’re here.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“The first yes, though, is the one you tell yourself. That one’s huge. It’s when you say, I will do this anyway. I will do it because it matters to me to make this attempt at the summit. You will not be perfect. No one is perfect. It will be hard. Everything is hard.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“I apply to things all the time and I don’t always get them. Whenever I get a no, I apply to another, and off it goes. It’s not personal. It’s just that there are lots of people and the world is full of no. You don’t need every yes. You need one, and then the next.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“This is just slow build and big ambition, and some luck. Not everyone gets everything they want. I don’t have everything I want. But when something goes right, even in the wrong direction, I try to celebrate that shit.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com