“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors — but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and…”— Hunter S. Thompson, tranquilmonkey.com
“Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN — and here is the essence of all I’ve said — you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.”— Hunter S. Thompson, tranquilmonkey.com
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother.”— Jane Goodall, humoropedia.com
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The truth of it all is that you may not know what you deserve right this moment, and that is okay. You will grow to figure it out. Until then, just promise me that you will believe with merciless conviction, with ruthless certainty, that you do not deserve to be unhappy. Promise me you will believe…”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com