“People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you w…”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?”— Ken Follett, youtube.com
“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.”— Sarah Cross, amazon.com
“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Life isn’t meant to exist in a narrow color spectrum of perpetual happiness. That’s a movie. It’s not reality. Experience all your vivid, fiery, watery emotions. Give yourself permission to be full bodied. You’re peeling. Revealing. It’s a messy, magnificent process.”— Kris Carr, kriscarr.com
“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com
“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.”— Sade Andria Zabala, goodreads.com
“My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you co…”— Joss Whedon, tvtropes.org
“I’m still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one’s got it all together. I don’t think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you’d spontaneously combust.”— Michael Thomas Ford, amazon.com
“People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”— Marilynne Robinson, amazon.com