"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working."
"And you can tell me,
That I can’t make a difference ‘cause I’m just one,
But one is all it takes to start it
And you can tell me,
That I can’t change the world,
Because I’m too young,
But I won’t stand here and be your target
And you can push me,
And try to knock me down, but I won’t listen,
‘Cause I’ve got nothing left to lose and,
You can hate me, for everything I’m not,
But it won’t change this,
‘Cause now that I’m here, I’m not moving"
-FM Static, The Voyage of Beliefs
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." - Barbara Kingsolver
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." - Anne Lamott
"'I cannot bear it!' said the pewter soldier. 'I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer. Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them. I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasent thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.'" -Hans Christian Anderson
"I know You are the answer - but I forgot the question.
How do I know You love me when no one else seems to care?"
-FM Static, Dear God
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michaelangelo
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Suess
"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine." -Haruki Murakami
"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, 'I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.'" - Haruki Murakami
"I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead." - Margaret Atwood
Dr. Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
Donnie: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I'd like to believe I'm not, but I just, I've just never seen any proof. So, I... I just don't debate it anymore, y'know? It's like, I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons, and in the end, I still wouldn't have any proof. So, I just, I just don't debate it anymore. It's absurd.
Dr. Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
Donnie: It is if everyone dies alone
-Donnie Darko
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Phillip K. Dick
"Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get--a cold, sick feeling deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again be quite the same person you were." - Jennifer Donnelly
"How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life. " - Admiral Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
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