Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ― Oprah Winfrey

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ― Helen Keller

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If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. _ Guy Finley

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ― Charlotte Brontë

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

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