The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice. ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

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To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. — T. Tolis

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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

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You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want. — Naomi Osaka

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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot. - Adam Sandler

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They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple. ― Dolly Parton

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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. ― Susanna Kearsley

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Everything happens for a reason. - Unknown

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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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