“Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.”— Tim Tharp, amazon.com
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”— Franz Kafka, en.wikiquote.org
“Look at you. You’re the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the…”— Lev Grossman, amazon.com
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."”— Don Cheadle, goodreads.com
“We can’t all be happy, we can’t all be rich, we can’t all be lucky – and it would be so much less fun if we were. There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com
“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.’ You are still alive. Act like it.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.”— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com
“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don…”— Ivan E. Coyote, youtube.com
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”— Claude Monet, harn.ufl.edu
“Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.”— Audrey Hepburn, goodreads.com