“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say.

"I'm “One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. Another
alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair.
when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even People will insist on giving me books.”
now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
Markus Zusak J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the “There are no happy endings.
impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Endings are the saddest part,
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
“Underneath my outside face “When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop.
There's a face that none can see. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender
A little less smiley, spots?”
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.”
Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
“We can't hold hands―Someone might see
Won't you please “He wasted his wishes on wishing.”
Hold toes with me?”
Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. “It's amazing the difference
A bit of sky can make.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” “Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each
meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is
beyond my imagination.”

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
Sappho
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he
saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose
to act on. That’s who we really are.”
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any
direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And
YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
With your own voice,' he said.”
Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
You call yourself a free spirit, a 'wild thing,' and you're terrified
somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in
that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by
Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go.
Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into
yourself.”
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not
going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the
times you've felt that way.” Charles Bukowski
“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will “Life's as kind as you let it be.”
eventually become it.”
Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
Tyler Kent White
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to Find what you love and let it kill you.
lose” love you back
Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski+ Dallas Clayton
“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.” “And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was
going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't
Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends you?”

Shel Silverstein, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't “So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that
change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98
and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the “We all can dance,” he said, “if we find the music that we love.”
best people are."
Giraffes Can’t Dance, Giles Andreae
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
"It doesn't happen all at once," he said. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it
doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to
be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these invisible to the eye.
things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to
people who don't understand." Antoine de Saint-Expuéry, The Little Prince
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
 “If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your
You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your
heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind
Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay,
kind laughter is the best help of all.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“When Harry thought about Winnie and the voyage across the ocean, his head I know you’ll be kind… and clever… and bold. And the bigger your heart, the
said, ‘I shouldn’t.’ His head said, ‘I can’t.’ But his heart made up his mind.” more it will hold. When nights are black and when days are gray—you’ll be
brave and be bright so no shadows can stay. And become anybody that you’d
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay like to be. And then I’ll look at you and you’ll look at me and I’ll love you,
Mattick whoever you’ve grown up to be.”
The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin

“What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be
it think of something else.” able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they
have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess The Little White Bird by J. M. Barrie