“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!” – Chuck Palahniuk

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” – Ayn Rand

“Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho

“Everyone should always have two books with him, one to read and one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” – Ben Franklin

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” – Beatrix Potter

“Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” – Malcolm X

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If you’re lucky enough to be different from everyone else, don’t change.” – Taylor Swift

“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Henson

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for it.” – Morgan Matson

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi

“I live my life in widening circles That reach out across the world.” – Rainer Maria Rilke