Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn't settle for it.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated.
—Susane Colasanti in So Much Closer
Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn't learn a thing.
—Shannon L. Alder
I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Obsidian
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
—Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees
She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.
—Charles Martin in Thunder and Rain
How could I let a love go—one I'd been holding onto for so long—one that felt like home? It's not easy to let go of the pieces, even though they're the reason for my pain.
—Rachel Van Dyken
Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know? When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.
—Donna Lynn Hope
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
—Dan Rather
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
—Will Rogers
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
—John Cage
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
—Senator Dianne Feinstein
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
—Steven Wright
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
—Thomas Fuller