“Scars, scars. She was coming to have so many. She wondered if it was wrong to be proud of them.”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.com
“Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.”— Muriel Rukeyser, amazon.com
“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it’s not like that. It happens overnight.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.”— Andrew Garfield, mtv.com
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”— Simon Sinek, twitter.com
“If they took back the pain they caused, you'd lose the strength you gained.”— Rachel Wolchin, twitter.com
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“Live so death has nothing to steal. Leave everything on the table. Don’t hold back your thoughts, your love, your creativity for another day. That path leads you to becoming a fraction of the person you were meant to be.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Take a look at yourself and ask: If I stopped growing tomorrow, is this the person I would want to be for the rest of my life?”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have never known who or what I am supposed to be. The only thing I know for sure, is that I am supposed to be more than I have been.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“We're all capable of huge leaps of insight and empathy if we're willing to go to work to learn how.”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”— Eliezer Yudkowsky, amazon.com
“It’s life that matters, nothing but life–the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don’t disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”— Czeslaw Milosz, washingtonpost.com