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  • #1
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #2
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #3
    Jenny Trout
    “No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness.
    The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit.
    ...
    Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)”
    Jennifer Armintrout, All Souls' Night

  • #4
    Jenny Trout
    “Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”
    Jennifer Armintrout

  • #5
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #6
    Nicholas Sparks
    “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

  • #7
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    Katharine Hepburn

  • #8
    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #9
    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

  • #10
    Let our scars fall in love.
    “Let our scars fall in love.”
    Galway Kinnell

  • #11
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    Fred Rogers
    “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #13
    S.K. Lessner
    “With this necklace, no matter how far apart we are, or where our lives lead us, I will always be next to your heart when you wear it.”
    S.K. Lessner, Twisted Truths & Leveled Lies

  • #14
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #15
    Dot Hutchison
    “Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
    Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

  • #16
    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    Danielle Steel, The Gift

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    Tom Hiddleston
    “Doing good in this world, and being kind and being honest and noble is really underrated. And I think you have... I think everyday people have enormous power, and they have enormous power for good, and if you're good to people, the world is a better place.”
    Tom Hiddleston

  • #19
    Sarah J. Maas
    “All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #20
    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was not becoming anything different from what she always was and always had the capacity to be. You just finally saw everything. And once you saw that other part of her… You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #21
    Katrina Kittle
    “Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face”
    Katrina Kittle, Traveling Light



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