“ People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. Sloane Crosley
“ It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. José P. Rizal
“ ...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing… Allison Winn Scotch
“ Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell
“ I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky. Sherri L. Smith
“ That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed. Patrick Ness
“ Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups! Sujit Lalwani
“ People don’t seem to realizeit that it is not like we’re onthe Titanic and we have toavoid the iceberg. We’vealready hit the iceberg. Thewater is rushing in down below. But some people justdon’t want… Peter Adejimi
“ If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing… Howard Spring
“ The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduc… Lauren Oliver
“ Sometimes", said Miss Phillips, "the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it. Marci Shimoff
“ Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can se… Amish Tripathi
“ But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew. Fatema Mernissi