“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Things usually work out in the end. What if they don’t? That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.com
“No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail. If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com
“We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”— Anatole France, amazon.com
“Sometimes when we’re so angry, we forget how to be human. Our primal instincts take over. And all we want is to hurt the way that we hurt.”— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, amazon.com
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com