“It is impossible to live without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not
have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.”
— J. K. Rowling

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck

“Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind…
I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair,
and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.”
― Ilona Andrews

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
— Maya Angelou

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
— Oscar Wilde

“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments.
Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe
that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and
ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.”
― Anna White

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss

“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein

“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
— C.S. Lewis

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember
sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.”
— Ernest Hemingway

“It hurt because it mattered.”
— John Green

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
— Herman Hesse

“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain.”
— Sylvia Plath

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.”
— Stephen King

“We rise by lifting others.”
— Robert Ingersoll

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
— Maya Angelou

“Things usually work out in the end.” “What if they don’t?”
“That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”
— Jeanette Walls

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent.
Caring for myself is an act of survival.”
— Audre Lorde

“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

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
— Edgar Allen Poe

“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”
— John Muir

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
— Rumi

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still love it.”
— Oscar Wilde

“To thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
— Ayn Rand

“Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.”
— Paula Coello

“And in the end, we were all just humans…
drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
— Scott Fitzgerald

“To avoid criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
— Aristotle

“Dwell in possibility.”
— Emily Dickinson

“Trust our heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.”
— ​E.E. Cummings

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails.”
— ​H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Have faith, have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”
— ​Francine Rivers

“Rock solid became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— ​J.K. Rowling

“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start there.”
— ​Cheryl Strayed

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
— ​Chelsea Handler

“Life is tough my darling, but so are you.”
— ​Stephanie Bennett Henry

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain

“No matter what the day brings and no matter how
hard life hits you,
if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on!
Once you have life, know that God is alive!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“When you’re having what you feel like is a ‘bad day’
and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends
to you the simplest of kind gestures,
you feel it so deeply within your heart.”
― Miya Yamanouchi

“So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Keep calm when things don’t go according to your expectations!
Beautiful things always meet friction!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow,
the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.”
― Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

“Never give up on someone who is having a bad day. Tomorrow could be yours.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“A bad day doesn’t cancel out a good life. Keep going.”
― Richie Norton

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
— Maya Angelou

“Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.”
—Joseph Heller

“Today is a hard day. Sometimes, there are hard days.
Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if
they can allow no room for hope.”
― Libba Bray

“How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He couldn’t believe it was only Wednesday.
And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
― TJ Klune

“This day had officially punched every hole in her crazy ticket.”
― Kimberly Kincaid

“Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy.
Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls.”
― Donald L. Hicks

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker

“Every single day is a good day no matter how bright or dark it is,
because it always brings an opportunity to start a positive beginning in your life.”
― Edmond Mbiaka

“There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.”
― Amit Kalantri

“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past.
Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will
turn out to be a past worth having.”
— Terry Pratchett

“There is always something left to love.”
— Gabriel García Márquez

“Each moment is a place you’ve never been.”
— Mark Strand

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
— Samuel Johnson

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
that I thought I was in a dream.”
— Jack Kerouac

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
— Colum McCann

“Challenges make life interesting, however overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Mark Twain

“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.”
— Dennis S. Brown

“No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.”
— Regina Brett

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott