An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. - By Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. - By Ellen DeGeneres

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. - By Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. - By Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. - By Yann Martel, Life of Pi

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. - By G.K. Chesterton