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  • #1
    Michelle Obama
    “Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
    Michelle Obama, Becoming

  • #2
    Harriet Martineau
    “You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
    Harriet Martineau

  • #3
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #4
    Marilyn vos Savant
    “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
    Marilyn vos Savant

  • #5
    Paul Kalanithi
    “What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #7
    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #8
    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #10
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

  • #11
    Rick Riordan
    “Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.”
    Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”
    Paulo Coelho, Aleph

  • #14
    Angie Thomas
    “Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
    Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

  • #15
    Paul Kalanithi
    “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #16
    William Blake
    “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
    William Blake

  • #17
    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #18
    Blake Crouch
    “For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken.”
    Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

  • #19
    Paul Kalanithi
    “I don’t believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #20
    Paul Kalanithi
    “Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"

    "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #21
    Paul Kalanithi
    “even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #22
    Paul Kalanithi
    “That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
    Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

  • #23
    Marilyn vos Savant
    “To acquire knowledge, one must study;
    but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
    Marilyn vos Savant

  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #25
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #26
    Suzanne Collins
    “Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
    A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
    Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
    And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
    Here it's safe, here it's warm
    Here the daisies guard you from every harm
    Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
    Here is the place where I love you.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #28
    Audrey Hepburn
    “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #30
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost



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