“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer”
Douglas Adams
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
Neil Gaiman
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
Albert Einstein
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”
John Green
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
