• "I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else it must be in my own way." - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
• "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." - JKR
• "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." - Frida Kahlo
• "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
• "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
• "For most of history, anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf
• "If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
• "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle
• "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
• "Only in darkness can you see the stars." - MLK
• "I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent Van Gogh
• "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm on my way." - Carl Sandberg
• "Quiet people have the loudest minds." - Stephen Hawking
• "I am still learning." - Michelangelo
• "Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair
• "If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be." - Maya Angelou
• “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” - Benjamin Franklin
• "People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long." -Johnny Depp
• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. " -Eleanor Roosevelt
• "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
• “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” -A. A. Milne

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” —Theodore Roosevelt

Anon

• "Conquer from within."
• "I am learning everyday to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
• "The darkest nights produce the brightest stars."
• "She decided to start living the life she imagined."
• "Always be the woman a man needs, not the woman who needs a man."
• "You are like the ocean, pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see."
• "Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every day is a fresh start. Each day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up is the first day of our new life."
• “On your journey through life, make sure your biography has at least one extraordinary chapter.”
• "Worrying is a misuse of your imagination."

Book quotes

• "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero
• "Truly a library is a room of dreams."
• "The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page." - St. Augustine
• "A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
• "There is not friend as loyal as a book." -Ernest Hemingway
• "When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars."