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“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence�� of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two competing emotions—love and hate.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.”
― Pablo

“I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case Of The Careless Cupid

“Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT”
― Pablo

“Were you born this infuriating?"
"It's taken me years of practice.”
― Misty Massey, Mad Kestrel

“Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“I can smite you " Nick grumbled. "Anytime I like.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Surrender

“I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.”
― Alessandra Torre

“If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
― Cavett Robert

“When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“In the case of suicide, people think that no fight was involved they merely think that the person couldn't take it and felt weak. They forget all the mental struggles the person faced because the were invisible and sometimes unspoken and unexposed to anyone. This attitude of society is wrong.”
― Deeksha Arora

“You can see real attitude of man when he's terrified.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores”
― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

“I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves”
― Pablo Tusset, The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant

“Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.”
― James A. Owen, The Search for the Red Dragon

“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”
― Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules

“said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly."

...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair.

...Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. "Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough.”
― James A. Owen

“Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Pull for the Mets. Watch a lot of movies. Don’t work too hard at your job. Take a trip to Paris with me. Come to the hospital when Rachel has her baby and hold my grandchild in your arms. Brush your teeth after every meal. Don’t cross the street on a red light. Defend the little guy. Stick up for yourself. Remember how beautiful you are. Remember how much I love you. Drink one Scotch on the rocks every day. Breathe deeply. Keep your eyes open. Stay away from fatty foods. Sleep the sleep of the just. Remember how much I love you.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.”
― Germany Kent

“Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.”
― Theodore Roethke

“The number of ways to live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.”
― Plutarch

“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance