"Art enables us to find ourselves

and lose ourselves at the same time."

~Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

~~David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"I don't want to die

without any scars."

~Chuck Palahnluk, Fight Club

"All ending are also beginnings.

We just don't know it at the time."

~Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

"It's no use going back to yesterday,

because I was a different person then."

~Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

"Not all those who wander are lost."

~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Most people are nice when you finally see them."

~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Sometimes infinities are bigger than other infinities."

~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional."

~Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

"It is our choices that show what we truly are,

far more than our abilities."

~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"None of us really changes over time.

We only become more fully what we are."

~Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

"I dream.  Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."

~Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It is sometimes an appropriate response

to reality to go insane."

~Philip K. Dick, Valis

"Don't panic."

~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"We all have to decide what to do

with the time that is given to us."

~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"If you're making mistakes it means you're

out there doing something."

~Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

"When someone leaves, it's because

someone else is about to arrive."

Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

"Twenty years from now you will be

more disappointed by the things that

you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., P.S. I Love You

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

~Paulo Coelho, Brida

"Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy."

~Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

"We must all face the choice between

what is right and what is easy."

~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"When you are imagining, you might as well

imagine something worthwhile."

~Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

"Appear weak when you are strong, and

strong when you are weak."

~Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"You never know what worse luck

your bad luck has saved you from"

Cormac  McCarthy, No County For Old Men

"It is better to be hated for what you are

than to be loved for what you are not."

~Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

"There is good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

~~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Twin Towers

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."

~Stephen King, Different Seasons