“Treat every living being, including yourself, with kindness, and the world will immediately be a better place.”— Timber Hawkeye
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.com
“Hey Mama I'm OK out here I've seen how hard the world can be My step is sure and I know my name I'm strong just like you prayed Id be”— Miranda Lambert, amazon.com
“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who…”— Jojo Moyes
“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.”— Jojo Moyes
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“With you or without you I have so much living left to do.”— 10000 miles away, somewhat-bulletproof.tumblr.com
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You step outside, you risk your life. You take a drink of water; you risk your life. And now days you breathe and you risk your life. Every moment now, you don’t have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you’re risking it for.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”— Chuck Palahniuk, barnesandnoble.com
“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com