People were too busy living their lives to notice that mine had somehow came to a halt.

You know those people you could go years without seeing and when you finally get together it felt like no time had passed? Hold on to those people.

—Brittainy C. Cherry in Loving Mr. Daniels

Home wasn't a certain place; home was a feeling from the ones for whom you cared most, a feeling of peace that calmed the wildfires of your soul.

—Brittainy C. Cherry in The Fire Between High & Lo

Maybe it's okay to no longer be the person we thought we were meant to be. Maybe it's okay to just be who we are now and accept that.

—Brittainy C. Cherry in Art & Soul

My trade and art is to live.

—Michel de Montaigne

I do not know the end of my living and the beginning of my dying, for they—living and dying—are both mixed up.

—Jamaica Kincaid

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

—Leo Tolstoy

I was watching my friends live around me, but I wasn't living. I was getting by. Making it day to day.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

—Flip Wilson