“...life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: 'You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.'”— Madeleine L’Engle, amazon.com
“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“If this is the only life, then why am I not just doing everything I want to do?”— James Franco, youtube.com
“If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that t…”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong…I don’t feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”— Richard Feynman, amazon.com
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”— Katharine Hepburn, thecultureconcept.com
“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”— Wilt Chamberlain, amazon.com
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I’m not a ‘little bit’ kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.”— Elaine Stritch, people.com
“It seems to me that I’m a tourist to life…I’m an observer of it.”— Isabella Rossellini, indexmagazine.com
“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.”— Caroline Myss, wordsofwomen.co