“I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter.”— Susan M. Watkins, amazon.com
“What makes Heroic? To face simultaneously one’s greatest suffering and one’s highest hope.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives; but none about his or her own.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity and just hold on.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“I’ve reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselve…”— Michelle Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com