“Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!”— Betty White, m.imdb.com
“A lot of cheap seats in the arena are filled with people who never venture onto the floor. They just hurl mean-spirited criticisms and put-downs from a safe distance. The problem is, when we stop caring what people think and stop feeling hurt by cruelty, we lose our ability to connect. But when we’r…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Life is a real fucked up shitstorm of seemingly controllable and completely uncontrollable moments just stacked on each other and we're all trying to make the best of it.”— Grace Helbig, youtube.com
“Hey, we're all just trying to get by. We're all doing life as best we can and that's all you can do is try to be the best version of yourself.”— Grace Helbig, youtube.com
“The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear.”— Grace Helbig, huffingtonpost.com
“It's not that I didn't trust him, because I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“But if you don’t try, you’ll still wake up every day wondering, you’ll still stare at your phone waiting, you’ll still ask yourself questions you’ll never know the answers to. Because taking risks is not only part of life, it’s also an essential part of love.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.'”— Matt Groening, Homer Simpson, amazon.com
“Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’ ‘How will I know which is which?’ ‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad on…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The world is moved along, not only by it's mighty shoves, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say i…”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com