“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” -Oprah Winfrey

“They get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

“Sometimes you tell yourself the things you need to hear.” -Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“I’m inspired by her. She says yes to life. She is a doer. The world smiles on her, or at least she thinks it does. And that’s what matters.” -Girls’ Poker Night, Jill Davis

"One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." -Dale Carnegie

"Dreaming permits each and everyone one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." -William Dement

"I couldn't think of anything, except that he was touching me." -Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

"We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces." -Grey's Anatomy

"When I left him, he was already walking away." -Nicole Santosuosso

"Every day the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work." -Girls’ Poker Night by Jill Davis

cuz our days were numbered
by nights on too many rooftops
they said we're wasting our lives
oh at least we know that if we die
we lived with passion
they said we'd burn so bright
we'd burn this city and go
-cartel

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.... To be alive is to be vulnerable." -Madeleine L'Engle

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." -Jonas Salk

”You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” –J. K. Rowling

"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others." -Tim Robbins

"It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are." -T.S. Elliot

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." -Jack Kerouac

Listen to the mustn'ts, child,
listen to the don'ts
listen to the shouldn'ts
the impossibles, the won'ts
listen to the never haves
then listen close to me -
anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
-Shel Silverstein

"Write to evoke emotion, not to describe it." -Hemmingway

"You can't be wise and in love at the same time." -Bob Dylan

"You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows." -Bob Dylan

"The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew..." -Bob Dylan

“I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” -Charlie Marlow, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness