September

• "Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction." (Bobby Sommer)
• "I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes." (Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft)
• ''And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.'' (The Perks of Being A Wallflower)
• "Just because you don’t say much doesn’t mean people don’t notice you. It’s actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There’s this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there’s the quiet one, the eye of the storm." (Amy Efaw, After)
• "If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may." (Vincent van Gogh)
• "I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes." (Ferdinand de Saussure)
• "Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have." (Doris Mortman)
• "To define is to limit." (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
• "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part)
• "Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you." (Chuck Palahniuk)
• "I believe that treating other people well is a lost art." (Tim Gunn)
• "When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you." (Lemony Snicket)
• "If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left." (Ritu Ghatourey)
• "And while I could sit here and feel sorry for myself, wondering why all of this happened to me..I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to wish for a perfect life. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I’m choosing to stand taller. I’ll probably get kicked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I’ll never stay on the ground." (Colleen Hoover, Hopeless)
• "Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life." (Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees)
• "I moved here because there was a lot I didn’t like about myself in Pennsylvania. I knew everybody. And everyone knew me. I wanted a chance to not know anybody. And I wanted a chance for nobody to know me."
• "I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere." (Albert Camus, from The Fall)
• "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch." (E.E. Cummings)
• "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." (André Gide)
• "I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all." (Coco Chanel)
• "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." (George Carlin)
• "It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." (L.R. Knost)
• "Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent. This is a myth perpetuated by disablism and driven by capitalism - we are all actually interdependent. Chances are, disabled or not, you don’t grow all of your food. Chances are, you didn’t build the car, bike, wheelchair, subway, shoes, or bus that transports you. Chances are you didn’t construct your home. Chances are you didn’t sew your clothing (or make the fabric and thread used to sew it). The difference between the needs that many disabled people have and the needs of people who are not labelled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized. The world has been built to accommodate certain needs and call the people who need those things independent, while other needs are considered exceptional. Each of us relies on others every day. We all rely on one another for support, resources, and to meet our needs. We are all interdependent. This interdependence is not weakness; rather, it is a part of our humanity." (AJ Withers, Disability Politics and Theory)
• "Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?" (George Moore)
• "People empty me. I have to get away to refill." (Charles Bukowski)
• "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." (Andre Dubus)
• "Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." (Jodi Picoult)
• "I need someone to pour myself into." (Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)
• "There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists." (Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words)
• "These days you are considered a weirdo if you live without a phone. Yet nobody cares if you live without a purpose. Anything wrong with that picture?" (Ray N. Kuili, Awakening)
• "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing."
• "The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness." (Daniell Koepke)
• "We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive." (Thich Nhat Hanh)
• "If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad." (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)
• "The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life." (Vasudev)

October

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." (Kahlil Gibran)
• "In the depths of my soul, I longed to be a part of something large and good; something that required all of me; something dangerous and worth dying for." (John & Stasi Eldredge, Captivating)
• "If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud." (Henry Miller, Plexus)
• "It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers." (Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear)

November

• "I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world." (Beth Clark, Kisses from Katie)
• "Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do." (Oscar Wilde)
• "I don't want to go heaven. None of my friends are there." (Oscar Wilde)
• "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." (Alan Watts)
• ''I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.'' (Charles Bukowski)
• "No artist tolerates reality." (Nietzsche)
• "Put your heart, mind and soul into even the smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
• "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." (Anatole France)
• "Be humble when you are victorious, and smile when you are at loss." (Arabic Proverb)
• "I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone." (Charles Bukowski)
• "I'm indecisive because I see eight sides to everything." (April Kepner)
• "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is." (Eckhart Tolle)
• " am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying:" (Oscar wilde)
• "I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself." (Oscar Wilde)
• "Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see."(Rumi)
• "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
• "These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible." (Lou Reed)
• "I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't." (Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner)
• "I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity." (Russell Brand)