“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”— Stella Adler, amazon.com
“Somethings in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you’re afraid some day you might lose it.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood… And understanding someone else.”— Brad Meltzer, amazon.com
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”— David Starr Jordan, amazon.com
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“What's left undone today, is still not done tomorrow; to every day there is a use and purpose; let Resoluteness promptly seize the forelock of the Possible, and then, reluctant to let go again, she's forced to carry on and be productive.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same. Doubt you’d be happy. So why are you afraid of change?”— Karen Salmansohn, amazon.com
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”— Arthur Golden, amazon.com
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“'How wonderful to be alive,' he thought. 'But why does it always hurt?'”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the onl…”— James Joyce, amazon.com