• "I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

—Maya Angelou

• “In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?” —Siddhārtha Gautama
• “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” Dr.Seuss
• “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room” Dr.Seuss
• "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself." — Neil Gaiman
• "But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives." — Haruki Murakami
• "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies." Rabbi Israel Salanter 1810-1883
• "You cannot connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference." Steve Job
• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
• "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien
• "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." Barbara De Angelis
• "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'" Mary Anne Radmacher
• "You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you" Maya Angelou
• "Every acquaintance, every friend, every person who has a place in your heart...it is the time with them that really means something. Nothing else matters." After the Wedding
• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela
• "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
• "Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be." Elizabeth Gilbert
• "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddah
• "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." Confucius
• "Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable with being uncomfortable. It may get tough." - Unknown
• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Hellen Keller
• "I don't want you to go, I'll eat you up, I love you so" where the wild things are (KW)
• "Find life experiences and swallow them whole. travel. meet many people. go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. try everything. exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life" Lawrence K. Fish
• "nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy" - bob kelso (my boss's free haircut)
• "the young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation" - pearl s buch
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -W. H. Auden
• "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - E.E. Cummings
• "I learned that life isn't necessarily easy but it is always worth figuring it out. That, if nothing else, has had the most profound effect on me. Learning that sometimes your circumstances suck, but life doesn't." - Andrew McMahon
• "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus
• "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." -The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.
• If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. - winnie the pooh
• "The world is but a canvas to the imagination." - Henry David Thoreau
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss
• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
• I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much sometimes.--Mother Teresa
• "We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on." -Amy Marie Walz
• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -Bernard Meltzer
• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? - Oscar Wilde
• "How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."
• "I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together...always."
• "Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life."
• "I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh. But I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."
• “Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe; no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its shame, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” - Max Ehrman
• "I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it." "Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters." ~Ernest Hemingway
• "be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take risks" -Postsecret
• "Life beings at the end of your comfort zone." Neale Donald Walsch
• 'I think even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact.' The Catcher in the Rye
• "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." JK Rowling/Harry Potter
• "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all, if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." JK Rowling/Harry Potter
• "When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fail. Think of it: always." Gandhi
• "My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." Charles F. Kettery
• "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." John Buchan
• "if there ever is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, & smarter than you think. but the most important thing is even if we are apart, i'll always be with you." - Winnie the Pooh
• "who are you to judge the life i live? i'm not perfect and i don't live to be. but before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean." -bob marley
• "Contrary to what the cynics say, distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough."