Gaya

“Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it."
But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself.
Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“she had always been ready to take off the minute she happened to feel like it ("Don't talk to me that way, Frank, or I'm leaving. I mean it") or the minute anything went wrong.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon