Some of these are actual answers to my questions, some I live by, and some I hope to follow

• "If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
  • Lemony Snicket
• "Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."
  • John Abbott
• "To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
  • Leo Buscaglia
• "Be nice if you’re a jerk. Be nice anyway."
  • Cody Weber
• "Happiness is only real when shared."
  • Into the Wild
• "Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding."
  • Greene
• "And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
  • John Steinbeck
• "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief"
  • Gerry Spence
• “I don’t like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”
  • Karl Lagerfeld
• “When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.”
  • Robert Browning
• “Lately I haven’t been trying to understand the world,I just swim a lot, and read and try, um, to be happy. I look at everything as meant to be. And sometimes awful stuff happens, but it’s all … it’s all part of it.”
  • Joaquin Phoenix
• "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain."
  • Maya Angelou
• "Sexy doesn’t impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration."
  • Lisa Unger
• "Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen."
  • Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)
• "When one man, for whatever reason, hast he opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
• “An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
  • Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer)