“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~Groucho Marx

“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.” ~Jim Morrison

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ~Katharine Hepburn

“We make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way, we ask for forgiveness. It’s the best anyone can do.” ~Pushing Daisies

“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of her shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of her.”

“Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.” ~Stephen King

“To love what you do and feel that it matters–how could anything be more fun?” ~Katherine Graham

“If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to them for dear life. Sympathy is medicine.” ~Frank Chimero

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~Marcus Aurelius

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may…” ~King Whitney Jr.