James

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
― Rumi

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”
― Lou Holtz

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies