"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!"
— Bob Marley

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
— Amy Tan

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
— Henry David Thoreau

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
— Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)

"The past has no power over the present moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

"To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles? To die, to sleep, no more! and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is air to. 'Tis a consummation devoutely to be wished. To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream; Aye there's the rub that makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the laws delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? For who would Fardels bare to grunt and sweat under a dreary life. But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose born, no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have then fly to others that we know not of. Thus conscious does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sickeled o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their current turn ary, and lose the name of action. Soft you now thy fair Ophelia, Nymph in thy orisions. Be all my sins remembered"
— William Shakespeare

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
— Henry Rollins

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
— C.S. Lewis

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
— Margaret Mitchell

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
— Marcus Aurelius

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
— Horace Walpole

"What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes."
— Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
— Kalu Iche Kalu

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or
make excuses. "
— Brian Tracy

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)