“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.”— Sebastian Faulks, amazon.com
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the o…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.ca
“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”— Dickens, Charles, amazon.com
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”— Benjamin Disraeli, amazon.com
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”— George Eliot, amazon.com
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”— Dave Nicholls, amazon.ca
“That is one good thing about this world: there are always sure to be more springs.”— Lucy Maud Montgomery, amazon.com