“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“The silence between the notes makes the music. And lest we forget, the longer the silence, the more incredibly beautiful and powerful the music when it finally swells and the symphony goes on.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.”— Mhairi McFarlane, amazon.com
“Write a list of things that are going to get better. Start with you.”— Unknown, metamorphosisofmeg.tumblr.com
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. It’s mostly a question of editing. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”— Po Bronson, amazon.com
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”— Edward Abbey, en.wikiquote.org
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”— Tony Schwartz, amazon.com
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all. Adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is not the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“He was terribly aware of the forces that brought people together and split them apart, and he wondered what his daughter was doing, far across the city; if she was still telling the story of a girl caught between the tidal pull of the moon and of the world. Or if she had already moved on.”— E. K. Ota, narrativemagazine.com
“Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what'. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com