"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."
– D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"There were still the periods of darkness, the spasms of panic; but now he knew they were not real and because he knew this he overcame them."
– V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"
– Louise May Alcott, Little Women
"Keep walking. If I look back I am lost."
– George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
"That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful."
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
"Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive."
– David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
"If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying."
– Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
"There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having."
– Sir Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Make not your thoughts your prisons."
– William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra
"Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"God made the world just as much for me as for any one else."
- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."
– Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I am like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light."
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
"Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes."
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Optimism
"Not all those who wander are lost."
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet"
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are"
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
"Everything will be alright in the end. So if it not alright, it is not the end."
– Deborah Moggach, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
