Lets admit it, 2016 was a long year. Between the election, Harambe, David Bowie, Prince, Brexit, and unrest in the Middle East, I think that we can all agree that 2016 was rough to say the least. While there were some positives, like how Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar, there has been breakthroughs with ALS research, Deadpool starring Ryan Reynolds graced the world, and we finally got the sequel to Finding Nemo that we have a long waited for. Fortunately, 2017 is on the horizon and hopefully we can make it better than the last. With that being said, here is some encouraging quotes to end 2016 strong!

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”- Walt Whitman

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Brontë

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” -Bram Stroker

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”– Mitch Albom

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”- Lemony Snicket

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." -John D. Rockefeller

“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there” -Lewis Carrol

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”- George R. R. Martin

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” - Ray Bradbury

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -Walt Disney

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”-J.R.R. Tolkien