<@> "Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."
Ray Bradbury
<@> "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Walt Disney Company
<@> "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for."
Oscar Wilde
<@> "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
<@> "Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said."
Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
<@> "You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."
Samuel Beckett
<@> "You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not."
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
<@> "He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess."
Demi Lovato
<@> "No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
<@> "Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
Benjamin Franklin
<@> "No one here gets out alive."
Jim Morrison
<@> "Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make."
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night
<@> "CALVIN:
This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God."
Bill Watterson
<@> "I know that the whole point—the only point—is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
<@> "Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
Jeffrey Eugenides
<@> "How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"
John Lennon
<@> "The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again"
Jimi Hendrix
<@> "You can get all A's and still flunk life."
Walker Percy, The Second Coming
<@> "Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
<@> "I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."
Jack London
<@> "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
Woody Allen
<@> "My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
<@> "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Horace Walpole
<@> "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Khalil Gibran
<@> "Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray"
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
<@> "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
Homer, The Odyssey
<@> "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
Albert Camus, The Stranger
<@> "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
<@> "Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss…." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare."
Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
<@> "Action expresses priorities."
Mahatma Gandhi
<@> "It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life."
Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
<@> "Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
<@> "There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
Mahatma Gandhi
<@> "Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"
Hayley Williams
<@> "Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."
<@> "Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
<@> "It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going."
Brian Tracy
<@> "The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged–though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt."
Robert Frost
<@> "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
Søren Kierkegaard
<@> "He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe."
Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries
<@> "I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back…."
Erica Jong
<@> "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Steve Jobs
<@> "The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain."
George Gordon Byron
<@> "Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
<@> "Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves."
Natsuki Takaya
<@> "Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
<@> "If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
<@> "Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions."
Paulo Coelho, Brida
<@> "Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them."
Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Brave
<@> "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
<@> "Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
Bob Dylan
<@> "How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode."
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
<@> "Dreams are necessary to life."
Anaïs Nin
<@> "That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable."
Deb Caletti
<@> "Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls…are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered."
James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
<@> "But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
<@> "It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
<@> "I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
<@> "But we can't go back. We can only go forward."
Libba Bray
<@> "Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."
Mark Twain, Notebook
<@> "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses."
William Arthur Ward
<@> "Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are."
Joss Whedon
<@> "It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out."
Jonathan Safran Foer
<@> "Rise to the occassion which is life!"
Virginia Euwer Wolff
<@> "Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud…"
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"
Mary Manin Morrissey
<@> "For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
<@> "The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor."
Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
<@> "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
<@> "It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasnt working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot."
Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
<@> "If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
<@> "Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
Kurt Vonnegut
<@> "I want to write a poem about "Truth," "Honor," "Dignity," and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it."
Jarod Kintz, I Want
<@> "If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood."
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
<@> "We are unusual and tragic and alive."
Dave Eggers
<@> "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
<@> "But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
<@> "A boo is a lot louder than a cheer."
Lance Armstrong
<@> "Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
<@> "Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
<@> "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
Drew Carey
<@> "I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
Abraham Lincoln
<@> "Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time."
Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
<@> "I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
Orson Welles
<@> "We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
<@> "Magic
Sandra's seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself."
Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
<@> "Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
Ani DiFranco
<@> "I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become."
Henry Rollins
<@> "Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
<@> "One Choice
One Choice, decided your friends.
One Choice, defines your beliefs.
One Choice, determines your loyalties – Forever.
ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU"
Veronica Roth, Divergent
