Sometimes things happen in life that you didn't plan for. All you can do is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.
—Colleen Hoover in Point of Retreat
People don't change. They're only revealed.
—Staci Hart in Hardcore
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around. . . . Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
—Larry Dossey
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
—Martin Luther
You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.
—Jodi Picoult in Nineteen Minutes
How could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you're wrong. I'm good for you even if you don't know it yet. I know because I've never been good for anyone before.
—Tammara Webber in Good For You
I am no longer afraid of anger. I find it to be a creative, transforming force; anger is a stage I must go though if I am ever to get to what lies beyond.
—Mary Kaye Medinger
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
—Charles Caleb Colton
But dreams change. Fate has a way of showing you paths you want more.
—Abbi Glines in Sometimes It Lasts
You can't fix people or make them change; the only thing you can do is pack your things and leave if it isn't working for you.
—Greg Behrendt in It's Just a Date
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Either move or be moved.
—Ezra Pound
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
—Jodi Picoult in Keeping Faith
Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.
—Susan Elizabeth Phillips in Hot Shot
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
—Jackson Pollock