“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.com
“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”— William Moulton Marston, discprofile.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”— Marilynne Robinson, amazon.com
“I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.”— Roger Zelazny, amazon.com
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm…[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people’s pain because I can love even after a…”— Daul Kim, quotemadness.com
“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”— Kaye Gibbons, amazon.com
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”— William James, amazon.com
“And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It’s knowing you could be the author instead.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.”— Peter V. Brett, amazon.com
“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”— Elizabeth Berg, amazon.com
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“26 shows up in the middle of coffee one morning and hands you a freshly printed memo that reads: ‘You’re going to get old one day and die. You’re cool for now, but it will happen. You’re officially on notice. You won’t be young forever.’ And then 26 struts out of your office, like an unconcerned dic…”— Jessica Blankenship, thoughtcatalog.com