“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation i…”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.”— Holly Elissa Bruno, amazon.com
“It's not about what you say, it's about what you do. You don't like the person you've become then do something about it, because no one's gonna do it for you.”— Peyton Sawyer, amazon.com
“Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness- machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won't do—j…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Don’t get buried in self-doubt just because someone else, no matter who they are to you in life, projects his/her own self-doubts onto you.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nothing is more rewarding and admirable than leading by silent example.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.”— Joss Stone, quotlr.com
“Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com