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“Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The officer looked at her. “So, to recap, you carried a package of, you don’t know what, for a girl you’ve never seen before and gave it to a man you don’t know. Or so you say. Who does that?”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

“What others view as setbacks, Firestarters see as opportunities to learn and grow more.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Interest isn’t just something you feel. It’s something you live.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”
― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering

“My depression is cyclical. When feeling down, I must remember each episode has a beginning, middle, and end.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that.

I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map.”
― Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World

“If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter what your decision is, big or small.  There's always another path you'll wonder about.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“At 23, I took the example
Of Moses and Jesus
And went 40 days without food.
In the end, Moses saw his god's glory,
Jesus overcame the devil,
I got a divorce...

...At 33, I've learned it's best to receive life
As It comes, let go of how you think it will go.
Rumi said to die before you die.
If you follow his advice, you will live your life alive,
And when death comes you will recognize him
As someone you've walked with before.”
― Eric Overby, Senses

“They say you do not notice the moment your life changes forever, that you never know you’ve walked through a door you can never go back through until you’ve taken that first step through it”
― Joel Golby, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant

“What changes a life is not simply learning more, though education is important. What changes a life is making decisions -- the best decisions you can make -- and acting on them.”
― Steve Goodier

“I discussed in detail what to expect over the next couple of days: what the surgery entailed; how we'd shave only a small strip of her hair to keep it cosmetically appealing; how her arm would likely get a little weaker afterward but then stronger again; that if all went well, she'd be out of the hospital in three days; that this was just the first step in a marathon; that getting rest was important; and that I didn't expect them to retain anything I had just said and we'd go over everything again.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“We grow by making little great changes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“When you look back do you see yourself or a Mirage of your Self?”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“The day your life will change forever. Can anyone predict it?”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“By recognizing and weighing our desires, as well as writing them down and organizing them, we trigger internal changes. And they, in turn, entail external changes. This results in the form of major life changes.”
― Анастасия Дашинская

“Years ago I lay my head down to cry; I have not been up since.”
― Ken Poirot

“Life certainly changes, doesn't it?" she asked her birth father. "One moment you feel there is no hope, no way out, and the next, the entire world opens up for you."

Razvan reached for Ivory's hand. "That is the truth, Skyler.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Wolf

“Things felt a little different and that was OK.
Life would never stay in one place, after all. I was just glad to have my friends.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Mungkin saya tidak akan berhasil. Meskipun demikian, saya mempunyai kesempatan untuk mempraktikkan kebebasan saya menentukan pilihan.”
― Budi Darma, Olenka

“My judge was trying to help me change my trajectory, the path I was on, the place I was going. She wanted me to be okay, to be normal, to be a regular, teenage citizen, having fun in healthy ways instead of destroying my life. Her strategy for getting me there was basically court-ordered repentance: 1) acknowledge that you messed up, that you “sinned��; 2) ask the judge for forgiveness, and 3) change your trajectory; stop repeating the mistakes.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Close the curtain
on the way I thought life would go,
The future’s determined
by the past and present, but who could’ve known?”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“Non décidément je n'écrirai pas... Il ne faut pas, il faut "continuer"." C'est une lettre à moi-même. La jeune fille interrompt la survivante : "Tais-toi, tout dire, c'est mourir." Elles cohabitent dans le même corps, l'une cherche la vie, l'autre flirte encore avec la mort. Il m'a fallu du temps pour les réconcilier.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, L'Amour après

“I find it hard to understand how certain people can be such an essential component of someone's life one day and then just disappear the next. Shouldn't it be able to endure forever?”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“It's hard to find a hook to end a story when nothing much has changed since the beginning.
But so it is, and so we are. Some stories are just like that, I think. The endings are soft, or maybe not endings at all. Just a continuation. Just a pause. Just a life, waiting for the right time to begin again.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“The swinging of the pendulum far to the left will cause it to go all the farther to the right.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“But I guess that's the cruel reality of change, how quickly it can wrap its fingers around your life and snatch away everything safe and familiar.”
― McCaid Paul, Sweet Tea & Snap Peas

“On an overcast day, I look out of the window from my office and see gray clouds slowly meandering overhead. There was a time when the rain and cloud cover weighed heavily on my emotions as if they were gloom in its natural form, crying and raging with thunderous outbursts. But now those rainclouds appear differently to me, more like a soft, temperate, protective cover that makes me want to curl up with a book and relax. Funny how our outlook changes over time.

If it seems like circumstances will always be as they are, it is an illusion. As sure as the weather and nature and aging, you can count on life changing both you and your situation. How awful stagnancy would be if this were not true.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“Nothing there would be the same without you.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince