“ The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure.… R.J. Palacio
“ I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. John Green
“ ...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick Jeanne Birdsall
“ Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today? Salvador Dali
“ It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress. Karen Marie Moning
“ If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. Brandon Sanderson
“ What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover f… John Lubbock
“ It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't you… Abraham Verghese
“ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that thou… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. Ludwig van Beethoven
“ You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So… David Nicholls
“ No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. Pittacus Lore
“ Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you stil… Iain Thomas
