Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term, so you can get paid in the long term.

Naval Ravikant

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Joan Didion

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Ellen DeGeneres

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel García Márquez

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer