“so, this is my life. and i want you to know that i am both happy and sad and i'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” ― stephen chbosky

“i fear oblivion. i fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.” ― john green

“you think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. i understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.” ― ava dellaira

“what is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” ― john green

“be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― oscar wilde

“be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― mahatma gandhi

“darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― martin luther king jr.

“there are only two ways to live your life. one is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― albert einstein

“to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ― j.k. rowling

“listen to the mustnt's, child. listen to the don'ts. listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... anything can happen, child. anything can be.” ― shel silverstein

“it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything, i still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― anne frank

“life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ― margaret mitchell