“If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But not all right to run away.”— Miyuki Miyabe, amazon.com
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”— T. S. Eliot, goodreads.com
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”— Ray Bradbury, quoteinvestigator.com
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”— Thomas Moore, amazon.com
“Counting your blessings increases them. People who take the time to focus on the things they are grateful for are happier and healthier.”— Sheryl Sandberg, vt.edu
“If you keep playing it safe, you’ll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are. Why don’t you trust me?”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.”— Leonardo Dicaprio, en.wikiquote.org
“If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.”— Robin Wright, robinrare.tumblr.com
“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.”— Patrick Stump, twitter.com