“You must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“If you don’t feel, what’s the point? What can you do?”— Lois Lowry, Jonas, Brenton Thwaites, amazon.com
“It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”— Fannie Flagg, amazon.com
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”— A. A. Milne, amazon.com
“This is the thing about life I’ve never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.”— R.A. Nelson, amazon.com
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical sw…”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they’re going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn’t about surviving this, it’s about understanding this.”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.com
“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.”— Olive Schreiner, amazon.com
“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and secrecy. The miracle of…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don’t see them until later. Sometimes you don’t know where they’ve come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us.”— Karina Halle, amazon.com
“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”— Elsie de Wolfe, goodreads.com
“God: How do we change the world? Evan: One single act of random kindness at a time.”— Steve Oedekerk, God and Evan Baxter, Morgan Freeman and Steve Carell, amazon.com
“I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love.”— Kuba Wojewódzki, goodreads.com
“...you can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt … We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com