What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
Antonio Tabucchi
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
bell hooks
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.
Debbie Ford
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus