“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”— Bob Moawad, goodreads.com
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”— George Harrison, amazon.com
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds…”— Andrew Solomon, amazon.com
“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”— John Guare, amazon.com
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”— Muhammad Ali, time.com
“Your life isn't behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“New Year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.”— Alex Morritt, amazon.com
“Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amo…”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”— Tricia Cunningham, amazon.com
“You've got to get up every morning with determination, if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”— George Lorimer, amazon.com
“Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.”— David Nicholls, amazon.com