"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. there is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It is not just in some of us, it's in everyone."

"The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare, or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still. It feels better somehow & if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected ... who knows what other pain might be waiting out there? Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo, choose the road already traveled & it doesn't seem that bad, not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict, you're not killing anyone ... except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked really, really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you, that change feels like a world of difference & you hope that it is. That this is the person you get to be forever. That you'll never have to change again." - Everwood

"The most important thing in life is to be happy & nothing else matters." - Audrey Hepburn

"There is a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind & the fresh air - until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible,' the wave says. 'Look what's going to happen to me!' Then along comes another wave. It seems the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, 'Why do you look so sad?' The first wave answer, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?' The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'"

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost. When I'm feeling most ghost-like, it is your remembering me that helps remind me that I actually exist. When I'm feeling sad, it's my consolation. When I'm feeling happy, it's part of why I feel that way." - Frederick Buechner

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"I have learned something that is inherent whether we chose to live knowing it or not. That we are just pieces of this crazy universe, floating through space like every other piece of this crazy universe. You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be." - Andrew McMahon

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live." - Charles Bukowski

"It's not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything."

"But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there's still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real- but you create the context. And context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else." - Chuck Klosterman

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationships just end, often without reason. I truly believe that some times both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning." - Greg Behrendt

"The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common: we're just a crowd of people who don't really fit in anywhere attempting to convince one another that we do." - Andrew McMahon

"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, find out what they're doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored. And all you see is a choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go." - Randall Munroe