“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”— Wayne Dyer, goodreads.com
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.”— B.F. Skinner, bfskinner1.wikispaces.com
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I am the one who got so good at burning the bridges before they could burn me and I am also the one who learnt to stay even long after they leave. I am messier than your room and as clean as the mountains.”— Kriti. G, wnq-writers.com
“It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know I’m drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can’t breathe.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. You’re curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. Ther…”— Randall Munroe, amazon.com
“You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent…You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.”— Adeline Yen Mah, amazon.com
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”— Harry Emerson Fosdick, amazon.com
“I’ve never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn’t mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me. The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The on…”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your versi…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”— Charles Lindbergh, amazon.com