"You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you."
- Isadora Duncan
"She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about"
- Jeffrey Eugenides
"The past is never where you think you left it."
- Katherine Anne Porter
"Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane"
- Thomas Pynchon
"Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?"
- Unknown
"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."
- Robert J. Sawyer
"Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life."
- Terry Pratchett
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that could happen to it."
- C. C. Scott
"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."
- Denis Waitley
"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."
- Unknown
