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  • #1
    Kathleen Winsor
    “If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness”
    Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber

  • #2
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #3
    Veronica Roth
    “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #4
    Veronica Roth
    “One Choice

    One Choice, decided your friends.

    One Choice, defines your beliefs.

    One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.

    ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #5
    Veronica Roth
    “My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth.
    Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #6
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

  • #7
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
    Anais Nin

  • #9
    Steve Jobs
    “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #10
    Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears
    “Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears”
    Demi Lovato

  • #11
    Thomas Paine
    “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
    Thomas Paine

  • #12
    Joseph Conrad
    “He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #13
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #15
    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”
    Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #17
    “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
    Nicole Richie

  • #18
    Marcia Lynn McClure
    “Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.”
    Marcia Lynn McClure, The Whispered Kiss

  • #19
    Marisa de los Santos
    “No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.”
    Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

  • #20
    David Richo
    “Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.”
    David Richo

  • #21
    David Foster Wallace
    “Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
    It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
    Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #22
    Donald Van de Mark
    “Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.”
    Donald Van de Mark, The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People

  • #23
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    “Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't."
    "You either let it break you, or you don't.”
    Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day

  • #24
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”
    Sue Monk Kidd

  • #25
    Mitch Albom
    “I made the wrong choice ," I whispered.
    My mother shook her head.
    "A child should never have to choose.”
    Mitch Albom, For One More Day



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