Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Because you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.” ― Christopher Paolini
“To generalize is to be an idiot.” ― William Blake
“The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.” ― M.T. Dismuke
“You can’t have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.” ― Patrick L. Turner
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
“Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there” ― George Harrison
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ― Albert Camus
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” ― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
“The past has no power over the present moment.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” ― Terry Pratchett
“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.” ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light ihn the Heart
“If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Life isn’t perfect, people aren’t perfect, but there are moments that are.” – Amy Harmon