You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you.
John Green
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. In the end, though, maybe it’s not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Be the heroine of your life
Nora Ephron
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
If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.
Revolutionary Road
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl Buck
I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Source: daisyslight )
Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know.
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Source: daisyslight )
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Oscar Wilde
i can’t go back to yesterday because i was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
Charles Bukowski
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
Margaret Shepard
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
Any Rand, The Fountainhead
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss