“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”— Audrey Niffenegger, amazon.com
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism o…”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt...”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“The only way you can ensure having a good future is by living a good present. That’s it. That’s the secret to getting exactly what you want out of life.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“My life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath.”— Omar Khayyám, amazon.com
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”— Søren Kierkegaard, books.google.com
“What if there are a million versions of us, one for each decision we ever make, living perpendicular timelines that erupt out from every choice? A constant fractal that makes us who we are. What if dejà vu is the overlapping of ourselves, the passing over a crossroads we already came upon? Have I be…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“According to logotherapy, this striving for to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical…”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more — except his God.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“I said that someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours; a friend wife, somebody alive or dead, or a God—and would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com