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

–Lemony Snicket

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

–Neil Gailman, Make Good Art

“Silence is so accurate.”

–Mark Rothko

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place… like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

–Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

–C.S. Lewis

“It doesn't matter how this looks to other people, it matters how it looks to you. If this is something you wanna do and if this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters fight.”

–Rocky Balboa (film)

“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

–Max DePree

“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”

–Steve Irwin

“If it’s both terrifying and amazing then you should definitely pursue it.”

–Erada

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

–Barbara Kingslover, The Poisonwood Bible

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

–Walt Whitman

“The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”

–John Krakauer, Into the Wild

“If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?”

–Boonaa Mohammed

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

–Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.”

–Margaret Shephard

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

–T.S. Eliot

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

–Hāfez

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

–Friedrich Nietzsche

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

–C.G. Jung

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

–Fyodor Dostoyevskey, The Brothers Karamazov