“Remember that when you’re young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people.”

- Josephine de La Baume

“You can’t just carry everyone else’s hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.”

David Kirk

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it’s true. But he may also fly.

- Lauren Oliver 

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

- Anna Quindlen

“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”

— Leila Sales

Don’t mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett

Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.

Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

- Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz 

“When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

— Ann Brashares 

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

- Richard Feynman

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

— Francis de Sales 

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”

— Laurie Helgoe 

“Learn to be alone and to like it. There’s nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company.”

— Mandy Hale 

“All of us are insecure. But the difference with those who are destroyed by insecurity is they think the way they see themselves is how the world sees them too.”

— TheMindMovement

“A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”

— Jillian Michaels