I worry there is something broken in our generation; there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.

Atticus

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

Lauren Oliver

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

Richard Moss

Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, "I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is not my station."

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Who you were, who you are, and who you will be are three different people.

It takes courage to be at ease with the mind as it is.

Andy Puddicombe, Headspace

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Sig Freud

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

C.S. Lewis

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place because you’ll never be this way ever again.

Azar Nafisi

The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.

It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Rick Riordan

When there’s a fresh wound in your heart, keep it open until it heals. Air it out. Understand it. Dive into it. Be fierce enough to become it. If you ignore it, it won’t be able to breath. If you ignore it, it will merely deepen, spread, and resurface later, wanting to release. And when later happens, it will hurt even more; because when later happens, you won’t know what you’re bleeding for...Remain open to feel free.

Victoria Erickson

Where there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

African proverb

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

It’s the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they’re what keeps life from being meaningless.

Tim Winton

Always listen to yourself... It's better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

There's a crack in everything. That's how the lights get in.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.