“The will to live is a force of immense strength. Even when your heart is broken into a million pieces and feeling beyond repair, there is something in the human spirit that keeps going.”— Patricia Sands, amazon.com
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”— Pema Chodron, amazon.com
“The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“Life brings to you exactly what you need. There is perfect justice in hell. There is nothing to blame. We can even say that our suffering is a gift. If you just open your eyes and see what is around you, it’s exactly what you need to clean your poison, to heal your wounds, to accept yourself, and to…”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“As we strain to grasp the things we desire, the things we think will make our life better, money, popularity, fame, we ignore the things that truly matter. The simple things like friendship, family, love, the things we probably already had.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Life kicks you around sometimes. It scares you and it beats you up. But there's one day when you realize you're not just a survivor. You're a fighter. You're tougher than anything life throws your way. And you are.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. And, of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be honored by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choos…”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Happiness comes in many forms. In the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dreams come true,or in a promise of hope renewed. It’s ok to let yourself be happy, because you never know how great that happiness might be. Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of…”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Do you ever wonder if we make moments in our lives, or if the moments in our lives make us?”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Who knows where life will take you, the road is long and in the end the journey is the destination.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you've ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Take the brass knuckles off before you start. If you're big enough you don't need them and if you need them you're not big enough to push me around.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“'I get so tired of it.' 'Tired of what?' 'Hard little men in hard little offices talking hard little words that don't mean a goddamn thing.'”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com